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Turing School Prework - Roberta Doyle

Task A- Practice Typing:

• screenshots of scores will be posted in comments

Task B- Algorithmic Thinking & Logic:

• screenshots of completed sections will be posted in comments

Task C- Create your Gist:

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How The Web Works

Today we are going to investigate the way the web works.

Materials:

• First let's read MDN HOW WEB WORKS.
• Next let's watch a few quick examples of how the internet works.
• And [how IP addresses work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFooN7Mu0IM - how IP addresses work).
• Finally let's tie these things together and watch a video about DNS - what happens when you type an address into a web browser.

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1. rails new <project_name> -d postgresql --skip-turbolinks --skip-spring -T

• -d postgresql sets up the project to use PostgreSQL
• --skip-turbolinks & --skip-spring creates a project that does not use turbolinks or spring
• -T skips the creation of the test directory and use of Test::Unit

2. In the Gemfile:

• Available to all environments:
  • gem 'figaro' - store environment variables securely across your app (docs)
• Inside of group :test:
  • gem 'rspec-rails' - user rspec in place of minitest (docs)
• gem 'capybara' - act as a user navigating your site in tests (docs)

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##Leap My code: here

• Responder #1 (here) - This solution is very close to mine, but with a one line return method, which makes it more efficient.

• Responder #2 (here) - I liked this implementation. It's short and clear. Rather than using a if statement, this person is just returning the result of a combination of comparisons (true or false).

• Responder #3 (here) - This person used a nested conditional, which made the implementation more complicated than what it needed to be.

• Responder #4 (here) - This solution used an if statement, however the user added an extra step to return false in case that the else if statement evaluated false, which is unnecessary.