Create a cheat sheet of commands

[rachelfenn]

I would like to create a cheat sheet that pulls the commands from the beginner curriculum so that people trying to create their own projects, or do the advanced curriculum, don't have to search around in the beginner curriculum to find the commands that they need. I would love it if someone wanted to pair with me on this! I have a flexible schedule and live in San Francisco.

[nuclearsandwich]

This cheat sheet is for Rails commands such as rails new superduper and rake db:migrate or general *nix command line stuff?

[rachelfenn]

I was thinking basically everything you do on the command line in the beginner curriculum, including logging into github, etc. It helps the people in the advanced course a little bit, but only in that they don't have to memorize commands (which I am incapable of doing) and lets them focus on what they want to accomplish. We could eventually expand it to include some other basic things (like not using a pre-made scaffold), or whatever people find useful. Those are my thoughts of what would help me (I always make myself quick sheets) but I thought it might help others also.

[nuclearsandwich]

Cool. I've been meaning to step back into RailsBridge stuff and would love to pair on this. I'm only in San Francisco on Fridays. Would Friday afternoon at GitHub HQ or Epicenter cafe work for you?

[lilliealbert]

I think perhaps having cheat sheets that aren't curriculum specific, but rather topic-specific, might be more useful than per-curriculum cheat sheets.

Maybe a command-line one, and a rails one, and a git one?

[rachelfenn]

I can do Friday morning from 9-11 or evening 5-7. I can drive down to meet you somewhere else other times in the week. I am a freak and use a windows computer, so if you want to use a mac we can pair on your computer. I'm relatively inexperienced at ruby but I can program in C so I understand the basics.

I'm cool with breaking up the sheets based on topic, though to start I think we can probably fit them all on one page but divided into sections, at least until/unless they start getting bigger.

Both GitHub HQ and Epicenter cafe should be fine. I know where the latter is but I'll need an address for the former.

[nuclearsandwich]

Oh man, I wouldn't want to make you drive down to San José unless you want to pair against a background of jazz at Cafe Stritch let's aim for 5pm at GitHub HQ?

[rachelfenn]

Sounds good, just let me know where that is :)

I will be down in San Jose on Thursday from 10ish-12 too.

[nuclearsandwich]

Oh neat. If you want to do lunch in San José I get out of class at 11:45. My email address is on my GitHub profile.

GitHub HQ 3.0
88 Colin P Kelly Jr St
San Francisco, CA

[lilliealbert]

This is a thing that happened!