A Ruby on Rails application designed to help self-taught programmers keep track of their coding learning goals. Users can chart their own roads to learning new programming languages and concepts. Create a new learning road and add courses as checkpoints along that road. Assign goal completion dates to both checkpoints and learning roads to keep your learning on track.

YellowBitRoad was built from my own experience as a self-led programming student. I would often find courses online for a language I didn't know, or know well, and want to take at a later date. It was difficult to keep track of them all, and organize them in into a clear road to learning something new. YellowBitRoad was created to serve as a tool for creating and organizing those roads, as well as a way to discover new programming courses to take.

You can find our deployed app on Heroku: https://yellowbitroad.herokuapp.com/

Signup or login to start using the application.

Once you're logged in, you can click on your username in the upper right to view your profile page. Your profile will feature a list of your learning roads.

To create a new road, visit your profile and click the Add A New Road button.

Fill out the form to create a new road. You can add your first checkpoint here, if you see a course you'd like to add. You can choose whether you want your road publicly viewable by others on the app.

View the Course Catalog to see what courses have already been added to YellowBitRoad. You can choose to learn more about each course, or add it to an existing road.

New courses can be added when creating checkpoints.

Visit the road you'd like to add a checkpoint to, and click the Add Checkpoint button.

From this form, you can create a new checkpoint and pick an existing course, or add a new course that can be used by others on the app.

You can edit your checkpoints and your roads by viewing them and clicking the edit button.

Finished a checkpoint? Mark it complete on your road. You did it!

These instructions will get YellowBitRoad up and running on your computer.

Other than the gems listed in this app's Gemfile, you will need to have Ruby and Rails installed on your local machine as well as the ability to install Ruby gems.

To run this app locally, fork and clone the GitHub repo to your local machine.

Change directories into the repo directory. Run bundle install to install dependencies, and rails db:migrate and rails db:seed to create and seed the database.

$cd yellowbitroad 
$bundle install
$rails db:migrate
$rails db:seed

Run $rails s to start a web server and access the app in a web browser.

$rails s

Use your favorite browser to visit the route displayed in the terminal. (E.g. http://localhost:3000)

• Ruby on Rails
• HTML, CSS, Flexbox
• Facebook Omniauth
• BCrypt

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/LizLaffitte/yellow-bit-road. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details