Ruby on Rails Foundations

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and Installing Rails

Lecture 1: What is Ruby on Rails?

Lecture 2: How to Install Rails on a PC

Lecture 3: How to Install Rails on a Mac

Chapter 2: Building your first Rails Application

Lecture 1: How to Create a Ruby on Rails Application

Lecture 2: Explore the Different Rails App Creation Options

Lecture 3: How to Run the Rails Server and View it in the Browser

Lecture 4: Explore the List of Database Rake Tasks

Lecture 5: How to Use Sublime Text as a Text Editor in Rails

Lecture 6: Exploring the File System of a Ruby on Rails Application – Part 1

Lecture 7: Exploring the File System of a Ruby on Rails Application – Part 2

Lecture 8: Should you Use Scaffolds or Generators?

Lecture 9: Creating Your First Rails Scaffold

Lecture 10: Reviewing What Scaffolds Create

Chapter 3: Rails Console

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Rails Console

Lecture 2: How to Create Records in the Rails Console

Lecture 3: How to Update and Delete Records in the Rails Console

Lecture 4: Advanced Database Queries in the Rails Console

Chapter 4: Routing in Rails

Lecture 1: Introduction to Routes in Ruby on Rails

Lecture 2: RESTful Routing in Rails

Lecture 3: How to Create a Custom Controller in Rails

Lecture 4: How to Create Custom Routes for Non CRUD Pages

Lecture 5: How to Set the Homepage for a Rails Application

Lecture 6: How to Integrate Routing Redirects in Rails

Chapter 5: Configuring Views

Lecture 1: Overview of the Master Application Layout File

Lecture 2: How to Use View Partials

Lecture 3: Advanced ERB Tips

Lecture 4: How to Integrate Images into a Rails Application

Lecture 5: How to Integrate Custom CSS Styles Using the Rails Asset Pipeline

Lecture 6: Integrating Web Safe Fonts into a Rails Application

Lecture 7: How to Integrate a Custom Font into a Rails Application

Chapter 6: Rails Controllers

Lecture 1: Purpose of Controllers in Rails

Lecture 2: Learn What Methods in Controllers Do

Lecture 3: Stay Away from These Controller Antipatterns

Lecture 4: Integrating Custom Queries in Rails Controllers

Chapter 7: Rails Models

Lecture 1: Purpose of Models in Rails

Lecture 2: Creating Custom Model Files for Algorithm Integration

Lecture 3: How to Integrate Custom Database Scopes in a Rails Model File

Lecture 4: Using Model Files to Create Database Column Default Values

Lecture 5: How to Integrate Validations in Rails with Model Files

Lecture 6: How to Generate a Model in Rails

Lecture 7: Setting Up Database Relations in a Model File

Lecture 8: How to Add a New Column to a Database Using Migrations

Lecture 9: Integrating Advanced Callbacks Using a Rails Model File

Chapter 8: Rails Database Management

Lecture 1: Review on Creating Columns in a Database Table

Lecture 2: How to Change the Data Type of a Column in Rails

Lecture 3: How to Remove a Column in Rails with a Migration

Chapter 9: Ruby Gems and Advanced Development Features

Lecture 1: What are Ruby Gems?

Lecture 2: How to Add Gems to an App's Gemfile

Lecture 3: Securing Application Credentials

Lecture 4: How to Build Out a File Uploader in Rails with Carrierwave

Lecture 5: Connecting to the AWS API

Lecture 6: How to Generate a Controller in Rails

Lecture 7: Manually Integrating CRUD Functionality Into a Rails Controller

Lecture 8: How to Add Private Methods to a Rails Controller

Lecture 9: Creating Nested Routes in a Rails Application

Lecture 10: Setting Up a Nested Form in Rails

Lecture 11: Integrating Parent Values in a Nested Resource Controller Method

Lecture 12: Configuring Custom Redirects for Nested Resources

Lecture 13: Integrating Arguments Into Links in Rails

Lecture 14: Integrating Multiple Queries on a Single Page in Rails

Lecture 15: Integrating Conditionals Into View Pages for Custom Page Behavior

Lecture 16: Finalizing File Uploads and Performing Advanced Debugging

Chapter 10: Authentication

Lecture 1: Installing the Devise Gem for Authentication

Lecture 2: Creating a Devise User Model in Rails

Lecture 3: Testing Registration and Signing Into a Rails Application in the Browser

Lecture 4: Integrating the current_user Method into a Rails App

Lecture 5: How to Allow User to Edit Account Info in Rails

Chapter 11: Deploying a Rails Application

Lecture 1: Overview of Rails Deployment Options

Lecture 2: Heroku Deployment Requirements

Lecture 3: Integrating git to a Rails Application and Pushing to GitHub

Lecture 4: Deploying to Heroku

Lecture 5: Accessing the Rails Console on Heroku

Chapter 12: Summary

Lecture 1: Course Summary