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 Migrations Migrations Methods Create and Read Update and Delete 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

Create a Bill Split Application Using Ruby on Rails

Project

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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