About This TIL Tracker

This application is a simple "Today I Learned" (TIL) tracker, built as part of my application for the Junior Rails Programmer role at 37signals.

Its primary purpose is to demonstrate practical skills in Ruby on Rails development, following the principles and practices valued by 37signals. This includes:

• Standard Rails: Built on Ruby on Rails 7+, adhering to conventions and keeping things simple.
• Hotwire for Interactivity: Features like tag filtering rely on Turbo Frames for efficient updates without complex JavaScript.
• Hand-crafted CSS: All styling is done with plain, semantic CSS, avoiding frameworks like Tailwind or Bootstrap. The focus is on clarity and usability.
• Simplicity: The application avoids unnecessary layers or dependencies, focusing on core functionality.

Features

• Log new learnings with a title, detailed body, and relevant tags.
• Assign a specific date to each learning, allowing for retroactive logging.
• View all learnings, sorted by the date learned.
• Edit existing learnings.
• Filter learnings by clicking on tags.
• Select and delete multiple learnings at once.

Notes

It is my first Rails application. Partly, I built it to learn Rails, but also to have a simple tool to log my learnings and share them with you. This app represents an effort to build a useful tool while showcasing craftsmanship and a thoughtful approach to web development.

The development process itself, including challenges faced and decisions made, is documented separately. The github repository is here. The app runs on Render.

The learnings are real: they were tracked separately in a markdown file, which were later uploaded to the app via seeds.rb. This also ensures that the learnings are retroactively logged and that you are able to view them in the order they were learned.