2008-08-04T13:07:04-05:00 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. 2 <ul class="outline"> <li>Rails Fundamentals <ul class="outline"> <li>Rails overview and walkthrough</li> <li>The Model-View-Controller framework architecture</li> <li>Creating a new Rails application</li> <li>Rails request-handling and URL parsing</li> <li>Development-mode deployment</li> <li>Generating models and controllers</li> </ul> </li> <li>Basic Ruby Skills and Tools <ul class="outline"> <li>Objects and methods</li> <li>Scalars: strings, numbers, dates and times</li> <li>Collections: arrays, hashes</li> <li>Classes and modules</li> <li>Control flow and conditionals</li> <li>Interactive Ruby (IRB)</li> <li>Attributes</li> <li>Iterators</li> <li>Exception and error-handling</li> </ul> </li> <li>Database Creation and Configuration <ul class="outline"> <li>Basic MySQL creation commands</li> <li>Configuring database.yml</li> <li>Automatically-generated migrations</li> <li>Custom migrations</li> </ul> </li> <li>Working with ActiveRecord <ul class="outline"> <li>Modeling a domain</li> <li>ActiveRecord models and Ruby classes</li> <li>ActiveRecord associations</li> <li>Writing Rails-friendly SQL</li> <li>Data validation techniques</li> </ul> </li> <li>ActionView Essentials <ul class="outline"> <li>RHTML templates</li> <li>Embedded Ruby (ERb)</li> <li>Partial templates</li> <li>Built-in and custom helper methods</li> <li>Layouts</li> </ul> </li> <li>Using ActionController <ul class="outline"> <li>The session and flash facilities</li> <li>Planning and writing actions</li> <li>Controller/view communication via instance variables</li> <li>The special params hash</li> <li>Filter methods for specific actions</li> <li>Redirecting actions</li> <li>Explicit rendering commands</li> </ul> </li> <li>Working with Forms in Rails <ul class="outline"> <li>ActionPack form helper methods</li> <li>"Magic" form-field population</li> <li>Processing forms</li> <li>Hash-based batch processing of CGI data</li> </ul> </li> <li>Session management and security <ul class="outline"> <li>The session hash</li> <li>Password deployment and encryption</li> <li>Avoiding SQL injection</li> </ul> </li> <li>Testing in Ruby and Rails <ul class="outline"> <li>Ruby's Test/Unit framework</li> <li>Writing fixtures</li> <li>Unit tests</li> <li>Functional tests</li> <li>Integration tests</li> </ul> </li> <li>Ajax, JavaScript, and RJS <ul class="outline"> <li>JavaScript facilities and support in Rails</li> <li>Basic DOM updating with Ajax calls</li> <li>RJS templates</li> <li>Graceful degradation of Ajax</li> </ul> </li> </ul> introduction-to-ruby-on-rails <ul class="outline"> <li>Rails Fundamentals </li> <li>Basic Ruby Skills and Tools </li> <li>Database Creation and Configuration </li> <li>Working with ActiveRecord </li> <li>ActionView Essentials </li> <li>Using ActionController </li> <li>Working with Forms in Rails </li> <li>Session management and security </li> <li>Testing in Ruby and Rails </li> <li>Ajax, JavaScript, and RJS </li> </ul> 2008-12-30T12:15:18-06:00