Ruby on Rails 6 Complete Beginner's Course

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Installing Ruby on Rails 6

Lecture 1: Installing Homebrew on Mac

Lecture 2: Install Ruby & Setup Postgres Database

Lecture 3: Install Ruby on Rails + Resources

Chapter 2: Ruby Basics – The Essentials

Lecture 1: Using Terminal to Create Our First Ruby File

Lecture 2: Strings, Integers and Variables

Lecture 3: String Interpolation and Type Casting

Lecture 4: Arrays and Loops

Lecture 5: Creating a Ruby Method

Lecture 6: Ruby Classes and Objects

Lecture 7: Collecting User Input from the Console

Chapter 3: Creating our first Rails Project

Lecture 1: Creating a new rails application

Lecture 2: Intro to Rails Server & Localhost

Lecture 3: Creating our Home Page

Lecture 4: Version Control using Git

Lecture 5: Database Setup – Installing PostgreSQL

Lecture 6: Installing the Postgres Gem

Lecture 7: Creating our Database and Schema Files from Terminal

Chapter 4: Introduction to Scaffolding

Lecture 1: Generating Rails Scaffolding

Lecture 2: Running our first Database Migration

Lecture 3: Adding / Editing / Deleting from the browser

Lecture 4: Pros and Cons of Scaffolding

Chapter 5: Intro to Controllers and Routes

Lecture 1: Adding a new Controller from Command Line

Lecture 2: Adding an action to a Controller

Lecture 3: Passing data from action to views

Lecture 4: Using Conditions Within Controllers

Lecture 5: Logging data to the Rails Server

Lecture 6: Adding Redirects to Actions

Lecture 7: Adding Flash Data to Show Success / Error Messages

Lecture 8: Before Filters

Lecture 9: Destroying Controllers in Command Line

Lecture 10: Cleaning Up Our Posts Controller

Chapter 6: Working with Views and Partials

Lecture 1: Views Folder Structure and File Types

Lecture 2: Bootstrap and Creating Our First Partial

Lecture 3: Displaying Blog Post Entries

Lecture 4: Adding Page Navigation View

Lecture 5: Partials and Local Variables

Lecture 6: Using content_for in layouts

Lecture 7: Common Mistakes with Views – Missing Template

Lecture 8: Styling our Homepage View

Chapter 7: Models and Active Record Basics

Lecture 1: Generating a New Model

Lecture 2: ActiveRecord Validations

Lecture 3: Adding a New Model Method

Lecture 4: Class Methods vs Instance Methods

Lecture 5: Active Record Associations

Lecture 6: Active Record Callbacks

Lecture 7: Scopes and Scope Chaining

Chapter 8: Rails Console and Active Record Continued

Lecture 1: Accessing the Rails Console / Sandbox Mode

Lecture 2: Active Record Queries

Lecture 3: Creating New Database Entries from Rails Console

Lecture 4: Editing and Destroying Database Entries

Chapter 9: Managing Assets, Views and Helpers

Lecture 1: Asset Pipline, Webpacker and Yarn

Lecture 2: Images and Asset Urls

Lecture 3: Custom Helper Methods and Views

Lecture 4: Creating Custom Forms

Lecture 5: Custom JS and Remote Forms

Lecture 6: Data Formats and Strong Parameters

Lecture 7: Helper for Form Validation Messages

Chapter 10: Mastering Database Migrations

Lecture 1: Creating a New Migration

Lecture 2: Adding / Removing Columns in Tables

Lecture 3: Rename a Database Table and Column

Lecture 4: Rolling Back a Migration

Chapter 11: User Authentication

Lecture 1: Installing the Devise Gem

Lecture 2: Setting up Devise Views

Lecture 3: Create Devise Model

Lecture 4: Adding Columns to a Devise Table

Lecture 5: Drop Admins Table Migration

Lecture 6: Styling Devise Forms and Adding Sign In and Sign Out Links

Lecture 7: Extending our devise registration form

Lecture 8: Connecting user accounts to blog posts

Lecture 9: Adding permissions to blog posts controller

Lecture 10: Showing Author on posts view