# Rails noob journey

I've been wanting to learn Rails since ages ago, but, you know, life was getting in the way (**or me, rather**).

A couple of weeks ago I decided to start a side-project related to another side-project. Sounds like an [**entry for a GitHub Graveyard**](https://dev.to/isaacdlyman/github-graveyards-ill-show-you-mine-49lh), I know. Just bear with me.

My initial side-project was a [**personal finance blog in Spanish called "Perro Dinero"**](https://perrodinero.blog) (has a special meaning in Spanish, but in English, it's just something like "money dog"). 

It started as a way to document my learning because my memory betrays me since I can remember **(pun intended)**. My blog is still running, constantly updating it, and now it has two objectives:

- Document my finance and investments learnings
- Help other people improve their financial lives

I won't go further into explaining this side project, all you need to know is that it's about personal finance, it's in Spanish, **my dog appears in every post 🐶,** and you can visit it here 👇

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**What does it have to do with Rails?** Well, my brother and I are creating an app to help people get into long-term investing. No, we're not taking your money, just helping you decide what to invest in given your objectives.

Both of us have many years developing in Grails, the **JVM version of Rails**, and we both had the curiosity to see how working in Rails is/feels (we're big fans of DHH and Jason Fried, too). So we decided to create it with Rails.

**We've encountered a few issues that took us from an hour to a couple of days to fix, and I just want to document them, as plainly and simply as possible.**

So, yeah, expect some short Rails ramblings for the next few weeks.

**Read you soon!** 👋