For the Ruby on Rails project I thought a simple task management application would be a good choice to display a good CRUD application. The application is similar to my Sinatra to-do list application with more of the robust magic that rails provides me. Also allowing the Devise gem to lend me some magic when it came down to the user authentication side of things.
I decided to create a simple MVC CRUD To-do List App using ActiveRecord with Sinatra. I always like to test my skills with any language by creating a simple application such as a to-do list app. The layout of the app is a little lacking on the user experience side but I really wanted to practice routing with Sinatra, though this app could have definitely been a one page app which was the hardest part for me to let go.
I decided to create a hiking trail CLI gem that would post the top 10 hikes and allow the user to get information about each hike. I think what took me the longest was figuring out what kind of gem I would like to build. Once I was able to come up with a subject (this took me about 4 hours) everything seemed to flow nicely from then on.