RLR201 - Rails for beginners

Rails is the most prominent web framework in Ruby, and has coined the term "Ruby on Rails". This course will teach you how to make your own Rails application from the ground up. General Ruby skills is required. Examples of sites built upon Rails include:

* twitter.com (frontend only)
* github.com (git hosting provider)
* hulu.com (US TV & Video streaming service)

This course covers the new Rails 3 framework. It uses the up to date book "Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial" as course material, and functions as a workshop covering almost the entire book in three days. Course attendees will get hands on experience buliding a sample web application while learning how Rails works on the inside. Due to the amount of coding done by the participants during the course, it's suitable to call this a workshop. It's a great way to learn Rails. In addition to Rails, this course covers several other technologies, including: Git, Heroku, RSpec, Test Driven Development and HTML5.

Content

* From Zero to Deploy
* A Demo App
* Mostly Static Pages
* Rails-flavoured Ruby
* Filling in the layout
* Modelling and Viewing Users
* Sign Up
* Sign In, Sign Out
* Updating, Showing, and Deleting Users