Ruby is a modern object oriented programming language, and Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful frameworks for building web applications. Rails was built using Ruby and makes it much easier to develop web applications with Ruby. Some notable applications have been built using Ruby on Rails: They incude Basecamp, Twitter, Shopify, Github, LivingSocial, Groupon, Hulu, Airbnb, Yellow Pages to just mention a few.. A google search will reveal much more..
This course is for the absolute beginner to Ruby programming language and Rails framework. I will guide you through setting up your development environment. Then we will cover some basics of the Ruby programming language. We will also install git and touch on github which is used for version control. We will create a complete blog application from scratch using Rails and in the process build up your skills.
Concepts we will cover while building our blog project include:
- Creating a new rails project
- Updating gems using bundler
- Illustration of MVC architecture
- Starting rails server
- Conditional statements
- Loops
- Creating controllers
- Creating models
- Associating models
- creating views
- Generating models
- Running migrations
- Creating posts
- Editing posts
- Reading posts
- Deleting posts
- Adding links to posts
- Creating comments
- Deleting comments
- Creating controller actions
- Setting up routes
- Create forms
- Using helpers
- Adding resources and automatically generating routes
- Implementing basic security
By the end of this practical course you would have developed enough skills to be creative and exapnd this project or build similar type of projects.
