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Turing School Prework - Calaway

https://github.com/turingschool/prework/blob/master/prework-month.md

Task A- Practice Typing:

https://typing.io

• screenshots of scores will be posted in comments

Task B- Algorithmic Thinking & Logic:

https://brilliant.org/computer-science/computer-science/?subtopic=types-and-data-structures

• screenshots of completed sections will be posted in comments

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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)
  • Uncomment gem 'bcrypt', '~> 3.1.7' if you will be hosting your own user accounts with passwords (docs)
• Inside of group :development, :test:
• gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.5' - use rspec in place of minitest (docs)