Ruby on Rails - The Project I Would Like To Do

I started writing the posts about what I learned from the Ruby on Rails tutorial. However, I have not mentioned about what kind of project I would like to do yet. Therefore, it would be good to let you know my project before continuing to write further posts.

Since I am working at the department that its products are used in the financial industry, the project I aim to develop is also related to my field; the Real-Time Quotes web application.

The Real-Time Quotes web application is a Ruby on Rails based application will be deployed as example in Heroku platform which has the following features.

• Display real-time quotes simulated from the Quote Feed web application.
• Display real-time news related to a particular quote simulated from the Quote News web application.
• Display historical quotes simulated from the Historical Quote web application.
• All information provided from the web applications will be in JSON format.
• Front-End User Interfaces are an Ajax + HTML5 and JavaScript based that pull data from the web applications.

That all for what I'm doing. More features might be added to the project as I go on working on the project.

In my view, the most effective way to learn new programming languages or frameworks is to do some projects that are close to the real ones as much as possible; this will make you to think about it as you are doing the project for a real client and try to configure out what are important to learn and practise the most to get the product out to the client's hands. It could help to boost your performance in learning new things a lot.