Ruby on Rails 5 Essential Training

Learn the essentials of Ruby of Rails 5. Find out how to create a complete data-driven web application with this elegant and easy-to-learn development framework.

Introduction

• Welcome
• How to use the exercise files

1. What Is Ruby on Rails?

• Ruby on Rails introduction
• Understanding MVC architecture

2. Get Started

• Create a project
• File structure of a project
• Configure a project
• Access a project
• Generate a controller and view
• Server request handling
• Routes
• Experiment on your own

3. Controllers, Views, and Dynamic Content

• Render a template
• Redirect actions
• View templates
• Instance variables
• Links
• URL parameters

4. Databases and Migrations

• Introduction to databases
• Create a database
• Migrations
• Generate migrations
• Generate models
• Run migrations
• Migration methods
• Solve migration problems
• Challenge: Migrations for the CMS
• Solution: Migrations for the CMS

5. Models and ActiveRecord

• ActiveRecord and ActiveRelation
• Model naming
• Model attributes
• The Rails console
• Create records
• Update records
• Delete records
• Find records
• Query methods: Conditions
• Query methods: Order, limit, and offset
• Named scopes

6. Associations

• Relationship types
• One-to-one associations
• One-to-many associations
• belongs_to presence validation
• Many-to-many associations: Simple
• Many-to-many associations: Rich
• Traverse a rich association

7. CRUD, REST, and Resourceful Routes

• CRUD
• REST
• Resourceful routes
• Resourceful URL helpers

8. Controllers and CRUD

• Read action: Index
• Read action: Show
• Form basics
• Create action: New
• Create action: Create
• Strong parameters
• Update actions: Edit/update
• Delete actions: Delete/destroy
• Flash hash
• Challenge: Pages and sections CRUD
• Solution: Pages and sections CRUD

9. Layouts, Partials, and View Helpers

• Layouts
• Partial templates
• Text helpers
• Number helpers
• Date and time helpers
• Custom helpers
• Sanitization helpers

10. Assets

• Asset pipeline
• Stylesheets
• JavaScript
• JavaScript tag and sanitizing
• Images

11. Forms

• Form helpers
• Form options helpers
• Date and time form helpers
• Form errors
• Prevent cross-site request forgery

12. Data Validation

• Validation methods
• Write validations
• Validates method
• Custom validations

13. Controller Features

• Cookies
• Sessions
• Controller filters
• Logging

14. User Authentication

• Authentication introduction
• Secure passwords
• Create a controller for access
• Login and logout
• Restrict access

15. Improve the Simple CMS

• Challenge: AdminUser CRUD
• Solution: AdminUser CRUD
• Public area
• Public area navigation
• Nesting pages in subjects
• Nesting sections in pages
• Adding RubyGems: acts_as_list
• Finishing touches

Conclusion

• Next steps