codegangsta/bwag

Source code for the book "Building Web Apps with Go"

bwag's Issues

Write a chapter on testing

Add a third column in the required packages table for description.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448020

Error in database example

If you run the example code in the Databases section as-is, the request throws a "Panic" error because QueryRow has to return a row, and the newly-initialized database table of course has no rows in it.

http://codegangsta.gitbooks.io/building-web-apps-with-go/content/databases/README.html

Again, very easy to figure out if you're not a total beginner, but maybe it would be better to either populate the db in the NewDB() function or remind the reader that the database must have data in order for QueryRow to work.

(Totally off-topic, but having worked with Perl's DBI for years I find the Golang database libraries really, really primitive. But maybe that's just me, I'm new to it...)

cheers

Error in render example

In the section "Using the render package," the render call using the example template doesn't do what you would expect.

http://codegangsta.gitbooks.io/building-web-apps-with-go/content/rendering/render/README.html

Specifically, by passing "nil" it will not render anything in the {{.}} bit. This was pretty easy for even a "go-newbie" to figure out, but then again I have a lot of non-Go programming experience. It might be confusing to an overall beginner.

Keep up the good work, and once again thanks for your contributions!

Change deployment directory to use godep instead of .godir

Its seems that the new "best way" of performing a deployment with heroku is to use the tools/godep. I would be more than happy to re-write that portion of manual/code. Let me know!

remote: Compressing source files... done.
remote: Building source:
remote: 
remote: -----> Fetching set buildpack https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git... done
remote: -----> Go app detected
remote:  !     Deprecated, .godir file found!
remote:  !     Please switch to godeps (github.com/tools/godep) ASAP
remote: -----> Installing go1.5... done
remote: 
remote:        Tired of waiting for bzr and hg?
remote:        Use github.com/tools/godep for faster deploys.
remote: 
remote: -----> Installing Virtualenv... done
remote: -----> Installing Mercurial... done
remote: -----> Installing Bazaar... done
remote: -----> Running: go get -tags heroku ./...
remote: 
remote: -----> Discovering process types
remote:        Procfile declares types -> web
remote: 
remote: -----> Compressing...
remote:        Done: 2.1M
remote: -----> Launching...
remote:        Released v3
remote:        https://mighty-citadel-93393.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku
remote: 
remote: Verifying deploy... done.

Add a chapter on bundling assets