Assignment 2-3

[ambethia]

Week 2 - Assignment 3

Description

Using the blog layout you created in yesterday's assignment (or creating a new one) I want you to build a web app that loads blog posts from a data file in YAML format.

Use Webrick to serve the pages on port 8000.

Deliverables

• [x] a git repo containing:
  • [x] public folder containing
  • [x] styles folder with style.css
  • [x] images folder with at least 2 images
  • [x] index.html that links to /blog
  • [x] a blog.rb file
  • [x] a post.yml file

    Requirements

• [x] a working website. It does not need to be publicly visible, but it should run on localhost.
• [x] at least two "blog posts" loaded from a data file (posts.yml).
• [x] each post should have a title, an accompanying image, and body text.

  Objectives

• familiarize yourself with ERB
• familiarize yourself with Reading files in ruby
• familiarize yourself with the YAML data format Hint: search for 'reading yaml ruby'

  Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should be able to create a dynamic site from scratching using only tools from Ruby's standard library.

Performance Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should be able to effectively:

• create ERB templates
• create and read yaml files
• use Webrick to serve static and dynamic assets
• use the Internet to research documentation for Ruby's standard libraries

[amie-wilt]

@ambethia: it's not completely done, but here's what I got so far. https://github.com/amie-wilt/DynamicBlog

[amie-wilt]

@ambethia, okay, done now!