Merch Challenges: pulling hair
This post is part of a loose series documenting the development process of Merch. If you want to read more about the app or track along with our progress, head over here. By the way, my partner in crime is @tahaadiljalil, a rockstar and international badass I met at Bitmaker Labs and all the work for Merch is being done at Filament Creative in Toronto.
I’m hoping if you’ve found your way here it’s because you, like me, are working on building a Rails web app with a Parse backend and it’s making you want to call your Dad, go back to school, do an ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ thing, whatever. Maybe that’s a little overboard (in truth we’re having a great time building it), but the original statement stands; if Parse + Rails is freaking you out a little, I hope you feel not quite so alone out there.
Taha and I found out this week that the associations we’d made between two of our Merch models...