Course Breakdown

Week 1

• Session 1: Prelude and Setup
  • Ruby installation and development environment setup
  • UNIX command basics
  • Play in Ruby Shell (irb)
  • Version Control System (Git basics and Github)
• Session 2: Ruby Programming basics
  • Ruby is programmer's best friend?
  • Define variables, data types, keywords, control statements
  • Quick look at String, Array and Hashes
• Session 3: Thinking in an object-oriented way (OOPs)
  • Methods
  • Class
  • Module and Mixins
  • Everything is an object in Ruby

Week 2:

• Session 4: RubyGems
  • What is RubyGems?
  • Bundler & Gemfile
  • Installing gems
  • Rails is a Gem
• Session 5: Introduction to Rails
  • Understand how web, servers and browsers work
  • MVC framework in regards to Rails
  • Scaffold a simple Rails app (my first Rails app.. wohooo!)
  • Know file structure of standard Rails application
• Session 6: Scaffolding and REST
  • What happens during scaffolding
  • REST
  • HTTP verbs
  • No need to scaffold

Week 3:

• Session 7: Router and Controller
  • Getting Rails Up
  • Show me the route
  • Follow the controller
• Session 8: Views and Partials
  • HTML views
  • Embed Ruby code in your views
  • Partials abound
  • Rails Helpers
• Session 9: Models and Migrations
  • Connect to database
  • CRUD operations
  • Rails Conventions
  • SQLite

Week 4:

• Session 10: ActiveRecord
  • Databases and ORMs
  • SQL query
  • ActiveRecord Queries
  • ActiveRecord Queries
  • Database Associations
  • Validation
• Session 11: Working with Forms
  • Helpers
• Session 12: Tests
  • Acceptance Tests

Week 5:

• Session 12: User Registration and Management
  • Session and Cookies
  • Basic Authentication
  • User Authorization
  • Devise/Omniauth
• Session 13: Twitter Bootstrap
• Session 14: Putting it all together
  • Acceptance Tests

Week 6:

• Session 13: Deploying your application
  • Put your app live on Heroku
• Session 16: Precious Gems
  • Rails is an omakase
• Session 17: Third Party APIs
  • Make API calls
  • There is a gem for that!

Week 7:

• Session 18: Action Mailer
  • Send emails with inbuilt mailer
• Session 19: Internationalization
  • Make Rails speak in Nepal
• Session 20: Asset Pipeline
  • Manifest
  • Rails Assets
  • Asset Compilation

Week 8:

• Session 21: Javascript
  • jQuery
  • CoffeeScript
  • Javascript Helpers
• Session 22: Web Server in Production Mode
  • Capistrano
  • Caching
  • Tips and Tricks