Ruby on Rails Training Material

Description

Ruby on Rails Course Content
Module 1 – Getting Started

Introduction
Ruby Documentation
Interactive Ruby
Customizing irb
Case Study
Module 2 – Simple Scripts

Creating a Basic Script
Execution on Linux/WS
Command-Line Execution
Making Scripts Executable
Creating Output
Taking Input
Making Comments
Case Study
Module 3 – Simple Types

Creating Numbers
Performing Arithmetic
Numeric Methods
Creating Strings
Interpolation and Escaping
Common String Methods
Creating Multiline Strings
Using Constants
Dates and Times
Case Study
Module 4 – Arrays, Ranges and Hashes

Creating Arrays
Common Array Methods
Adding Elements
Removing Elements
Array and Strings
Using Ranges
Creating a Hash
Common Hash Methods
Case Study
Module 5 – Control Structures

Operators
Basic Conditionals
Extended Conditionals
The Conditional Operator
Case Statements
Basic Loops
Numeric Iterators
Collection Iterators
Case Study
Module 6 – Creating Methods

Simple Methods
Returning Values
Taking Arguments
Default Argument Values
Using Self
Variable-Length Arguments
Methods and Blocks
Case Study
Module 7 – Creating Classes

Simple Classes
Instance Variables
Using Accessors
Creating Constructors
Defining Operators
Other Special Methods
Validation and Duck Typing
Case Study
Module 8 – Inheritance

Basic Inheritance
Overriding Methods
Chaining Methods
Access Control
Class Variables
Class Methods
Case Study
Module 9 – Modules and Includes

Modules as Namespaces
Modules as Mixins
Requiring Files
Ruby Standard Library
Case Study

Rails

Module 1 – Introduction

Introduction to Ruby on Rails
Understanding what Rails is and isn’t
Module 2 – Diving Right In

A look at a real-world Rails app
Quick tour of default app
Overview of environments
Brief demo of Active Record
Action Controller
Action View
Module 3 – MVC (Model View Controller)

Detailed look at Rails MVC
Implementation
Full lifecycle of web request
Module 4 – Active Record basics

The Active Record Pattern
Models
Tables
Columns
Attributes
Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD)
Case Study
Module 5 – Action Controller basics

Actions
Controllers
Routing requests
Params
Sessions
flash messages
Case Study
Module 6 – Action View basics

ERb templates
layouts
partials
views
components
helpers
Case Study
Module 7 – More Active Record features

Validations
Associations
Aggregations
Accessors
findby*
overriding defaults
Case Study
Module 8 – More Action Pack features

Request filters
render versus redirect
caching
responds_to
form helpers
Case Study
Module 9 – Testing

Testing controllers (functional)
testing models (unit)
creating mock objects (fixtures)
assertions
rspec, cucumber
Case Study
Module 10 – Routes

Routing requests
Creating patterns
Errror-Handling
Case Study
Module 11 – Request Filters and Callbacks

After
Before
Around (prepend_around)
Callbacks
Case Study
Module 12 – Debugging

Breakpointer
Logging
Script/console
Case Study
Module 13 – AJAX

AJAX form requests
Effects
Controls and JS helpers
RJS templates
Case Study
Module 14 – Action Mailer Basics

Sending mail
Processing mail
Using generator
Attachments
Testing mail
Case Study
Module 15 – Web Services, API, RestAPI

Using Builder
RXML
Generating RSS feed
Producing
Consuming Web Service
Case Study
Module 16 – Extending Rails

Active Support basics
Plugins
Engines
Ruby libraries
Case Study
Module 17 – Benchmarking and Performance

Caching (fragments, partials)
Eager loading
Profiling
Benchmarking
Case Study
Module 18 – Deployment Sample server setups
Capistrano configuration
Recipe Creation
Case Study

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