I’m pretty sure I made a slight breakthrough yesterday with my understanding of CSS. I was dragging my feet a bit on implementing my photo feed and photo details portion, but once I got into it, I was seriously rolling.

I set up my models, controllers, actions, reducers all with little hiccups. I did have a redesign in sample state to include user info though just so that I can access user profile photo and names. That took a relatively short amount of time, thank goodness. I then set up my presentational component so that I could see the container structure, which really helped with organizing for the CSS.

The worst part of the day, which wasn’t even that bad after I figured a work around, was seeding the database. I went and seeded 14 users using the Faker gem for Rails, that was the easy part. The other easy part was finding 100 or so photos so that I had a reasonable amount of seeded information. Once I found 100 photos, I uploaded to my cloud storage on Amazon’s AWS S3, that was also the easy part because I could just drag and drop all 100 files into their upload UI. The hard part was getting the link, that is until I found out that all the S3 links had the same prefix. I then found out that I could go into the directory, and copy and paste all the file names into a txt file, and then parse that txt file in Rails into an array, where I then mapped over and prepended the S3 prefex. And BAM! I have an array of ALL the links I needed. It was then just a matter of iterating through the links, creating new Photo objects with the links and randomly assigning a user with a user id number.

I was so into the project, I stayed at a/A until 1 am last night, went home and continued working until 2 am. I finished what I intended to do, and feel ahead of schedule =D.

That’s pretty much it for today guys! Time to pull ahead of schedule even more!