mindful iterations

I’ve hit a wall. Metaphorically, of course. For the last several hours, I’ve been mucking around with Ruby on Rails. (today, anyway). Yesterday, I also spent time mucking around with it. I’ve gone through two tutorials and was just starting to implement my own idea when I came crashing both head AND feet first, into the Wall of Dumbfoundedness.

I’ve got my table all created. Part of me wonders if I should’ve used several tables, and I probably should have. At this point, I have a table with about 20 columns, all setup in sqlite3. I edited the necessary migration file, and let ‘er rip. In hindsight, I should’ve setup multiple tables, although I suppose that for my first ‘original’ project, using just one table is probably the easier way to go. So, anyway, I edited the migration file, I setup a controller and a view, and all that good stuff… and now, I’m sitting here twiddling my thumbs. (Actually, I’m typing, not twiddling my thumbs, but it’s a figure of speech, so please don’t think I’m lying, as I’m really not lying, I’m just using a figure of speech, er…).

What I'm having a hard time with, is defining the things I want to be done… I have my table with all my columns, and now it's a matter of figuring out how to populate my columns.  I've tried to gleam things from the different tutorials that I've gone through, but I can't seem to translate the knowledge over to my own project.

There's one tutorial/free ebook that I haven't completed yet.  I should probably go ahead and do that one and THEN work on my project.  It's a bit more comprehensive than the other tutorials.

I guess I can look at the good part – I'm good with generating stuff and I was able to 'think' and outline my project in a database format.  That's something I've not really done before.  So, kudos to me.