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I looked through the table of contents for that 1,088 page book and I didn't see anything that hinted on how to do sorting on table columns. And this is exactl
by nickjj 9y ago
I looked through the table of contents for that 1,088 page book and I didn't see anything that hinted on how to do sorting on table columns.
And this is exactly why Rails Casts was great. You would Google "how do I sort table columns in Rails" and find the episode, watch it in about 10 minutes and implement it in your code base. Rails Casts has been dead for years and it still ranks in the top 3 today on Google for that phrase btw.
I don't want to flip through 1,000 pages in a book to find 1 specific feature I am struggling with right now. I may never find it.
- AlexandrB 9y ago> I don't want to flip through 1,000 pages in a book to find 1 specific feature I am struggling with right now. I may never find it. I'd much rather do that than watch a video about it, where I'm forced to scrub back and forth trying to understand the key concept at the speed the presenter is speaking instead of reading a section multiple times (which can be much faster).
- nickjj 9y agoBut what if the video is 5 or 10 minutes long and it's focused on the exact problem you have, plus it has a blog-post style block of text under it with the code examples? And on top of that, there's a git repo which shows a before / after for just that feature. That's the value in something like Rails Casts.
- falsedan 9y ago1.5x playback speed, friendo