Web Development with Ruby on Rails
Summary of Key Learnings
- Understand the basics of web technology and how a web application works
- Learn fundamentals of an object-oriented programming language (Ruby)
- Students will be able to develop a deep understanding of the fundamentals of Rails and how to put all the pieces together
- Build and deploy a complete web application from scratch with Ruby on Rails using database solutions
Pre-requisites
- HTML/CSS
- Programming knowledge/experience
- Laptop with *NIX Operating Systems installed (linux/Mac)
- Loves web and coding
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