Introduction to Ruby on Rails

Gain insights into Ruby on Rails fundamentals, creating projects, deploying, CRUD operations, user authentication, and session management. Build foundational skills to develop complex applications.

Beginner

51 Lessons

15h

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Gain insights into Ruby on Rails fundamentals, creating projects, deploying, CRUD operations, user authentication, and session management. Build foundational skills to develop complex applications.

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Course Overview

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails to build your own application. You will start by learning how to create a new project, deploy to a Rails server, and the Rails design pattern. After that, you’ll learn how to perform CRUD operations, handle user authentication, and manage sessions. Once you finish this course, you’ll have the foundations in place to build more complex applications to add to your portfolio.

What You'll Learn

Understand the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails

Explore the basics of the Model-view-controller (MVC) architecture

Create and use Rails migrations

Perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on Rails

Configure your routes, models, views, and controllers

Write and run tests for your application

What You'll Learn

Understand the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails

Course Content

Introduction to Ruby on Rails

Get familiar with Ruby on Rails, its core concepts, setup, and basic functionality.

Prerequisites and Learning Outcomes

What is Rails?

Creating a New Rails Project

Deploying on the Rails Server

Rails Design Pattern

Hello World!

CRUD on Rails

Unpack the core of creating, reading, updating, and deleting objects in Ruby on Rails.

Models and Active Record

CRUD Application: Part 1

CRUD Application: Part 2

CRUD Application: Part 3

Validations

Basic Challenge: Validate Updates

Challenge Solution: Validate Updates

DRYing the app

Quiz

Your First Rails Application!

Work your way through building a Rails app with models, authentication, and voting features.

Model Structure

Basic Challenge: Configure Route

Challenge Solution: Configure Route

User Model

Basic Challenge: Configure Views

Challenge Solution: Configure Views

User Functionality

Acts as Votable

Basic Challenge: Sign-in Status

Challenge Solution: Sign-in Status

Basic Challenge: Configure Show View

Challenge Solution: Configure Show View

Basic Challenge: Dislike Links

Challenge Solution: Dislike Links

Comments

Break down complex ideas about managing and displaying comments in Ruby on Rails.

Comments Structure

Project Challenge: Associations and Routes

Challenge Solution: Associations and Routes

Project Challenge: Controller

Challenge Solution: Controller

Project Challenge: Comments Form

Challenge Solution: Comments Form

Project Challenge: Display Comments

Challenge Solution: Display Comments

Project Challenge: Partials

Challenge Solution: Partials

Testing

Dig into testing practices in Rails, covering assertions, models, controllers, integration, and views.

Introduction to Testing

Assertions and Code Structure

Model Testing

Controller Testing: Functional Tests

Controller Testing: Integration Tests

View Testing

Conclusion

1 Lesson

See how it works to build a functional application using Ruby on Rails fundamentals.

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