Introduction to Ruby on Rails

Learn foundational Ruby and the theory and practice of Rails in this four-day hands-on, expert-led course in Edison, New Jersey! You will be coached in Ruby language constructs and the entire Rails development stack: domain modeling with ActiveRecord, controller and view implementation, testing, database migrations, data validation techniques, AJAX fundamentals, and more.

• Rails Fundamentals
• Basic Ruby Skills and Tools
• Database Creation and Configuration
• Working with ActiveRecord
• ActionView Essentials
• Using ActionController
• Working with Forms in Rails
• Session management and security
• Testing in Ruby and Rails
• Ajax, JavaScript, and RJS

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Course Outline

• Rails Fundamentals
  • Rails overview and walkthrough
  • The Model-View-Controller framework architecture
  • Creating a new Rails application
  • Rails request-handling and URL parsing
  • Development-mode deployment
  • Generating models and controllers
• Basic Ruby Skills and Tools
  • Objects and methods
  • Scalars: strings, numbers, dates and times
  • Collections: arrays, hashes
  • Classes and modules
  • Control flow and conditionals
  • Interactive Ruby (IRB)
  • Attributes
  • Iterators
  • Exception and error-handling
• Database Creation and Configuration
  • Basic MySQL creation commands
  • Configuring database.yml
  • Automatically-generated migrations
  • Custom migrations
• Working with ActiveRecord
  • Modeling a domain
  • ActiveRecord models and Ruby classes
  • ActiveRecord associations
  • Writing Rails-friendly SQL
  • Data validation techniques
• ActionView Essentials
  • RHTML templates
  • Embedded Ruby (ERb)
  • Partial templates
  • Built-in and custom helper methods
  • Layouts
• Using ActionController
  • The session and flash facilities
  • Planning and writing actions
  • Controller/view communication via instance variables
  • The special params hash
  • Filter methods for specific actions
  • Redirecting actions
  • Explicit rendering commands
• Working with Forms in Rails
  • ActionPack form helper methods
  • "Magic" form-field population
  • Processing forms
  • Hash-based batch processing of CGI data
• Session management and security
  • The session hash
  • Password deployment and encryption
  • Avoiding SQL injection
• Testing in Ruby and Rails
  • Ruby's Test/Unit framework
  • Writing fixtures
  • Unit tests
  • Functional tests
  • Integration tests
• Ajax, JavaScript, and RJS
  • JavaScript facilities and support in Rails
  • Basic DOM updating with Ajax calls
  • RJS templates
  • Graceful degradation of Ajax