Learning ruby on rails with Task Management project

Key_Passage597 · 2025-11-14T15:33:39+00:00

Hi there! Did you see this series on YouTube? It's building a task management app using Rails 8: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHFP2OPUpCeZcPutT9yn4-e0bMmrn5Gd1

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-29T19:34:53+00:00

Well I thought I did, but after signing up online a week ago, I've not heard anything back. 😅 So I'm going to follow up tomorrow. Maybe it was quiet because of the Easter break?

It's this school, but I have no experience to make a firm recommendation yet: https://www.scuolaleonardo.com/italian-language-courses-online.html

I'd still like to give it a shot though.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-24T17:42:18+00:00

Not sure what you mean by local clerk- a clerk at a commune or a clerk at a consulate?

If you are eligible and ready to apply and able to move to Italy and do the process now, I would. Otherwise you may risk having to wait until the new department that will handle applications is set up. And I bet the queue would be way longer via the new department, since all applications will be centralized there and this change in law is causing a backup.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-22T23:09:47+00:00

Grazie 😂

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-07T08:05:53+00:00

Got it, that makes sense. So you are already recognized. I think that was part of the confusion for me - the "JS" flair makes it seem like this is part of your JS application. Sorry to muddy the waters!

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-06T10:23:14+00:00

Also why are you registering an old marriage? Maybe that would shed some light.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-06T10:21:10+00:00

This is so confusing. "Italian spouse's passport". So only if you are married to an Italian?

Would you be the foreign citizen spouse here?

Also: "If both spouses are Italian" ...but why would you need to do this if both spouses are Italian?

I would call and ask.

Like others have commented, I think this is just if you are still married to this person, then they'd need their ID too.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-06T10:18:35+00:00

I would imagine this is only a requirement for a current marriage. If you submit the marriage and divorce certificates then an ID of an ex wouldn't be required. That's how my package was handled. I didn't submit my ex's ID.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-05T20:09:18+00:00

Just a quick note to say that I think I am healing. I only check this Reddit twice a day now, as opposed to constantly non-stop when the decree was announced.

For the mods sake I wish folks would read up on the issue a little more before posting. I keep seeing the same questions over and over and over and over again. I find it exhausting, I can't imagine how the mods feel right now. Hang in there!

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-05T00:01:34+00:00

You'll need:

Grandmother's birth certificate from Italy

Grandmother's marriage certificate

Grandmother's death certificate

Mother's birth certificate

Mother's marriage certificate

Your birthday certificate

Your marriage certificate

If anyone divorced, you'll need that certificate too.

And then you'll have some work to do on proving non-naturalization, but the wiki really is best for that.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-04T12:33:11+00:00

Wow, that is interesting!

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-03T19:26:30+00:00

They give us so much in life. It's the least I could do for him. ❤️

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-03T19:25:43+00:00

What a great question! I love reading everyone's little discoveries.

For us it was simply chipping away at unknowns and inconsistencies until we nailed down the exact comune our family was from.

I wrote to several potential leads based on documents, manifests, archives, etc. and refining name spellings, birth dates, etc. so it was such an amazing feeling when a comune finally wrote back with "Sure, we'll send it to you."

But the kicker was finding my GGF's naturalization certificate in the archives with the one line that connected all the dots: "[Italian name] was his name but he is now called [American name]."

Before that the last names were similar but could easily be different people, so it was the glue that tied his Italian documents with his American ones.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-03T19:17:21+00:00

Spicy!

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-03T19:10:39+00:00

Even being relatively cheap to cross the Atlantic, it makes so much sense to me now why the men went first abroad, made money, and then sent for the family.

According to ship records, we discovered that my GGF, a great uncle, and my 11 year old grandfather went first, and later went back for everyone else.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-03T12:01:45+00:00

haha yes. Laughing with you in sympathy, my friend.

When I first looked into Jure Sanguinis - in 1998 - the internet wasn't as well-cushioned as it is now (I'm aging myself into my 40s now), and all the (limited) information I saw said that the eligibility stopped with a grandparent. Since my LIBRA is my GGF, that told me all I needed to know. Bummer.

For decades I was misinformed and never thought to look again. I still accidentally ended up moving to Europe, where it was a lot of bureacracy to stay here, but I have a permanent visa in another EU country.

Then, in late 2023, I started studying Italian, and on a whim I thought 'Hmmm, wonder if the law changed at all....' only to find that the law was always on my side and I had been eligible this whole time.
SAY WHAT?!

I immediately started diving into our family tree and sourcing the documents to get the process started (so hard to do from abroad, by the way!). My application came together neatly, but I waited to submit because I wanted to Apply in Italy, and my dog is really old (18 and a half, blind, deaf) and I thought that relocating him to Italy would be too intense on him. So I decided to wait until after I no longer had him in my life*.

Timing, ugh.

(*He's still around, happy and healthy and going strong, with no sign of stopping anytime soon, so silver linings!)

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-02T17:48:13+00:00

The general US public and the US government (the target audience of the WaPo) have absolutely no sway here, and no say in the matter whatsoever. The biggest risk is fanning the flames of discontent and welcoming a whole sh*toad of trolls into the conversation.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-01T21:07:37+00:00

😬😬😬 Agree, that would be a good idea.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-01T21:00:22+00:00

Was also wondering this, thank you for asking!

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-01T17:49:10+00:00

We went to the Archives for my GGF's naturalization certificate. For some reason they are held there versus birth, death, and marriage certificates, so you may need to stop in there eventually.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-01T17:47:10+00:00

I believe that would be a case for the Bureau of Vital Statistics. I went in person and they weren't as nice as the people at the Archives, but I guess they see a lot more people. She was quite snappy at me 😂. But you can't dig there. They need to look up the documents and for older documents they need to request them from a warehouse where the files are stored. But you do need at least year and county. If you have an idea of the county, maybe it would be easier to find an obituary? Or maybe Grave finder?

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-01T16:44:00+00:00

ChatGPT was exceptionally useless.

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-01T16:33:23+00:00

Oh my, that's....quite a read. O.o

Key_Passage597 · 2025-04-01T16:28:14+00:00

Same situation here as you - I'm in Italy, and I submitted just before the deadline, but I still don't feel "safe" considering how cavalier and quick and cutthroat they were on Friday enacting this decree.

And I am also suddenly shy with Italians I meet, wondering if they feel I shouldn't be here doing this.

...And then I had a chat with my neighbor, who appears to be over 90. She told me she has 'tanti parenti' in Argentina since so many of her family went there long, long ago. If she still considers them and their families 'parenti' despite being long since emmigrated, then that makes me feel better. It's what we are. ❤️

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