Fishing bugs Lab

Overview

Welcome to the Rails Debugging Lab! This lab is designed to enhance your understanding of Ruby on Rails by presenting you with a series of intentionally introduced bugs, issues, and challenges within a pre-built Rails application. Your task is to identify, debug, and fix these issues, applying best practices and reinforcing your knowledge of Rails' structure and operation.

Objectives

• Debugging Skills: Improve your ability to diagnose and fix common Rails errors.
• Rails Fundamentals: Deepen your understanding of MVC architecture, routing, migrations, ActiveRecord, and more.
• Problem-Solving: Enhance your problem-solving skills in a real-world context.
• Best Practices: Learn best practices for writing clean, efficient, and secure Rails code.

Getting Started

1. Clone the Repository:

   git clone git@github.com:Islamsulaiman/fishing_bugs.git
   cd fishing_bugs

2. Set Up Your Environment:

   Make sure you have Ruby, Rails, and Bundler installed. Then, run:

   bundle install

3. Database Setup:

   Run the following commands to set up your database:

   rails db:create
   rails db:migrate

4. Start the Rails Server:

   rails server

   Visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser to see the application.

Guidelines for Completion

• Tackle issues one at a time, starting with those you feel most comfortable with.
• Use Rails documentation, Stack Overflow, and course materials as resources.
• Commit your changes with descriptive messages after resolving each issue.

Submission

Once you have addressed all the issues:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Clone you're forked repository locally.
3. Create new branch from main to solve in.
4. Solve the issues one by one, and make each solution in a separate commit.
5. Push your changes to your forked repository.
6. Open a PR against the original repository.
7. Include reflections on what you learned during the lab and any feedback on the lab itself inside the PR description.