Introduction to Ruby on Rails
a four-day course
Our Introduction to Ruby on Rails will take you from newcomer to advanced intermediate Rails application developer in four days of intense, focused learning. You'll work on progressive hands-on exercises, and also create and develop your own Rails application.
By the end of the course, you'll have an understanding of:
- Ruby fundamentals: objects, methods, variables, classes, and more
- The Model/View/Controller framework architecture
- Rails application creation and layout
- The Rails connection sequence and URL routing
- Object-relational mapping with ActiveRecord
- Writing "Rails-friendly" SQL
- Database maintenance with ActiveRecord Migrations
- Data validation techniques
- Template composition with Embedded Ruby
- Organizing views with partial templates
- Default and specialized view layouts
- Controller actions and logic
- Fine-tuning program flow with filters and callbacks
- Form handling with Rails helper methods
- Writing test fixtures and unit tests
- ...and more!