Last week at Flatiron School we finally got to the big kahuna of our syllabus, Rails. And finally, I understand why it is awesome. Rails can generate a full MVC-based web app from the command line with the command rails generate scaffold SITENAME. Need a new model? Type rails g model MODELNAME. Need a few routes? Migrations? There’s no need to manually create the core files of a web app because they can all be done from the command line. It feels like I’ve entered some club of those who know.
Yes, Rails is awesome. Personally, I can’t wait to put it to use in our final projects, which start in T minus 3 weeks. So until that exciting time, here’s something else entirely about the neighborhood around Flatiron School.
Flatiron School’s campus is nestled between two buildings that used to house prominent cruise ship lines, the Panama-Pacific Line and the Cunard Line. These buildings, like many of the other older structures in the Wall Street area, are decorated with marine motifs, such as shells, seahorses, and tridents.
As ships ceded their place to airplanes as a primary mode of transport, the cruise lines sank, and law firms and finance companies moved into these hulking buildings.
Above, the Cunard Line building, and below, remnants of the Panama Pacific building’s signange. You can still make out the letters.
And now Flatiron School lives in the neighborhood, bringing in a new cycle of economic change to New York City.
Halfway there!