Shack for my ugly codez

After a chaotic holiday weekend and chaos with sugar-injected children, I finally found a free hour this weekend to create a nice, cozy class for the time_track app! Now it just needs a big refactor before I can start implementing new features and functionality. So far I think I’ve covered most of the Ruby basics other than blocks and procs but I’m not sure I’ll need those for this little program right now.

I finished Chris Pine’s “Learn to Program” book this evening. I’m looking forward to spending some time re-reading Why’s Poignant Guide To Ruby; I think I’ll find some nice gems (hahahaha) in there now that I have some more foundational knowledge of programming under my belt. 

For now here’s the new codez:

I wrote my first little app in Ruby tonight. Well, that’s a lie. I’ve been writing cute little inapplicable apps for the last month but they’ve just been exercises out of Chris Pine’s “Learn to Program” book. Tonight I actually decided to write a very basic time tracking app armed only with the knowledge I’ve cultivated thus far and it came out swell. I know it’s quite basic and lame, so please laugh. I am laughing at it right now. But I’m learning as quickly as I can with only 2 hours of time a night available for learning Ruby. 

I did end up having to use a hack to display my time (from seconds) to a pretty-formatted date/time string. But I hope to come back to this problem later and come up with my own solution. It doesn’t store the data to a file yet but I’ll be adding that tomorrow evening. I know it will only take 5 minutes but the kids do wake up around 5am and I’d sure like to sleep now

Here’s the nuby code: