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Course overview

Are you a web designer or developer whose clients are asking for more than just a Wordpress site? Have you ever wanted to design your own interactive web app but are intimidated by the learning curve? Are you a beginning web developer or hoping to become one?

If so, this course is for you!

We’re going to learn the popular and powerful Ruby on Rails.

This is a hands-on, interactive, live course where we’ll introduce everything that you need to know to start coding Ruby on Rails apps.

Example App

Want to see what we'll be building? Head over to the example app at https://issue-tracker-rails-workshop.herokuapp.com/. You'll need to sign up for the app - just click "Sign up" under the login form and enter your email address and a password.

Screenshot of login form Screenshot of issue list Screenshot of issue detail page

Cloud9

Unless you've already got a Ruby on Rails environment set up on your computer, the easiest way to get started is to use Cloud9. Just go to https://c9.io/ and sign up for a new account.

Clone the working app

If you'd like to take a look at the code behind the finished app you can clone our repository into your own workspace.

  1. Go to https://c9.io/boosterstage
  2. Click "Clone"
  3. Click "Create workspace"

In this course you will learn:

  • How to rapidly prototype a dynamic web application using Ruby on Rails.
  • How to deploy your application using Heroku.
  • How Ruby on Rails works, and why it’s built the way that it is.
  • How to get help when you run into questions.

Topics we’ll cover

  • Creating a new project and setting up your development environment.
  • Saving and retrieving relational data to the database with ActiveRecord.
  • Modifying your database with ActiveRecord migrations.
  • Defining one-to-many and many-to-many relationships between ActiveRecord models.
  • User login and authentication with Devise.
  • The MVC (Model/View/Controller) paradigm.
  • RESTful design with CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete).
  • How Rails works, and how a Rails project is structured.
  • Testing your application with unit and integration tests, and why testing is important.
  • Use Rails’ built-in UJS (Unobtrusive JavaScript) to easily make remote requests via AJAX.
  • Using Rails’ asset pipeline to dynamically serve JavaScript and CSS.
  • Applying the latest version of Bootstrap CSS.
  • Creating a responsive, mobile-first design.
  • Using Git version control.

What’s Included

  • This is a hands-on, in-person course.
  • Github access to a finished version of the app, with lots of descriptive commit messages that you can follow as we build your own version of the app.
  • Free access to our Slack community where you can ask questions and interact with other students.

Who’s behind this?

This course is created by Ryan Heneise and hosted by Inventive.

Ryan Heneise crafts top-quality web-based software products for bootstrapped startups. He is the owner and principal developer of Booster Stage, a serial entrepreneur, and professional Ruby on Rails developer.

For more information, contact ryan@boosterstage.net.

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