Thanks!
Obviously, some questions you're going to need to work through the code, so we can always move the conversation to text.
So far lots of the calls have been about documentation and best practices which are pretty easy to talk through.
Agreed - maybe an Rails environment similar to http://tryruby.org/ for Ruby IRB?
Re:Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)
by lenary on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @08:25AM
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an, if only herokugarden lived on, that would be ace!
Re:Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)
by JoshTriplett on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @11:36AM
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Integration with some kind of web-based collaborative editor or similar seems like a huge win here.
How do you bridge the code-to-voice gap; that is, someone calling in with a question about coding and you have to describe something that requires a lot of code syntax. Do you pass that off to some sort of e-mail type discussion or screen-sharing process, anything like that?
This seems like it could be a great consulting-style opportunity, but also an awesome way to get new developers over the stumbling blocks they experience commonly when picking up new languages.
edit My curiosity on this stems from past experience, doing phone-based coding or tech support to family or friends - it has always been a major challenge for me to verbally describe some more complex tasks, and 9 times out of 10 I find myself saying, "you know what - I'll just swing by and show you, it'll be a lot easier and faster for the both of us". (I am not a very good auditory learner/processor - I need tactile or visual assistance, and teach others better using the same methods.)