RubyoffRails/Episode7 — pull request #1 by ralphos (2012-05-20 04:31:52+00:00)
Title: Completed Panda & Tiger level

First o allf, geocoder is awesome. So is nokogiri. I didn't have too many problems with the homework, except for getting the tests to pass after I had changed my code. I think the main reason was that I'm still a bit fuzzy on 'stubs' and 'mocks' in rspec. You can see if you run my code that two specs fail and I'm not sure why? (Hopefully during office hours we can go over it again).

A couple questions I have after watching and attempting episode 7:

- How do you comment out multiple lines in Vim?

- I want to try and use geocoder in a Rails app I am planning on building - but it seems really easy to hit the API query limit? What would you suggest if you wanted to include geocoder and geolocation features into a Rails app?

I'm going to attempt the Eagle level soon - I'm really curious to try and implement the Djikstra algorithm. As a former non-technical founder of a startup I always questioned why developers got sidetracked & made life more difficult for themselves, but I can totally see why some choose the harder path. This stuff is very intriguing and addictive!