Ruby On Rails: Problem in Knowledge Check of Routing Lesson. Postman Chrome extension is deprecated
AhmedTheGreatest opened this issue · comments
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Problem
In the Routing section of The Ruby on Rails course, there is a Knowledge Check about the deprecated Postman Chrome Extension which is now replaced with the Postman Native App. This Knowledge Check question is related to the 7 year old REST API video by Brad Traversy which is linked in the Assignment section.
Solutions
There can be a few solutions to solve this problem:
- Remove the knowledge check question.
- Add a disclaimer about the deprecation of the extension.
- Replace the video about APIs with some other one.
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Ruby / Rails
Lesson Url
https://www.theodinproject.com/lessons/ruby-on-rails-routing#knowledge-check
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tornado_77
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This is my first time contributing to open-source.
@AhmedTheGreatest Hello and thank you for making this issue.
If you have a good, up-to-date video that could replace the current video, I think that would be the best thing to do here. If not (I realize looking for a replacement could be a lot of work), I think we could remove the knowledge check and have a note in the Assignment that mentions that the extension shown in the video is deprecated. I would accept a PR that does either of these things.
Since you indicated you'd like to work on this, I'll assign you. Let me know if you have any questions.
This is my first time contributing to open-source.
Welcome! Always great to have new contributors.
Hello, thanks for assigning it to me. I'll certainly try to find some replacement videos or else just remove that knowledge check and add a disclaimer. I'll see if I can do it today or else I'll do it tomorrow as it's night here. I'll first send you the replacement if I find one. Thanks, a lot.
Hello @JoshDevHub . Will this video work? It I think is not as good as the other one and it uses the web version of postman? There is also this good blog. I think I should just remove the knowledge check and add a note about its deprecation.
Yeah let's just remove the knowledge check and add a note about the deprecation. We can always think about a replacement later down the line. The quick fix will help people who are going through this lesson right now.
Thank you for finding this and volunteering to fix it 💪
I have submitted a Pull Request.