Ruby on Rails a Beginners Guide

Name: Ruby on Rails a Beginners Guide
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A total beginners guide to building a Rails Application

Created byStephen Chesnowitz

Last updated 3/2016

English

What you'll learn

Have this skills to create a rails application and publish the app live on the web. Students learn the inner workings of rails and get introduced to gems, authentication, the rails console, rails generators, Git Hub and much more.

Course content

18 sections • 88 lectures • 6h 27m total length

Welcome2:39
Learn the basics of Ruby on Rails by creating users, linking them to posts, styling pages, and generating content with Rails tools and downloadable resources.
Welcome0:07
STOP! Don't try to install Rails!3:55
A brief overview of using Rails in the cloud.

Getting Sassy - Installing bootstrap-sass-rails Gem1:45
using gems and adding styles to your rails application.
Getting Sassy Part 24:08
continued style of your rails application
Navigation4:31
an introduction to navigation and adding basic navigation to your application.
Navigation Partial3:38
moving you code into a partial file.
Creating a Partial
ERB
Navigation Cleanup4:03
Contained3:19
Footer4:17
Create a bootstrap footer for public pages using a Rails partial, render in the application layout, and style with a dedicated footer.css.scss including a contact form and social icons.
Font Awesome4:12
Install the font awesome gem, run bundle install, and import the font awesome styles into your application to display icons such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and get help.

User Set Up Gems10:40
Learn to set up user authentication in Rails by installing bootstrap-sass and device, configuring routes, and generating a user model with confirmable migration.
User Sign In9:03
Update Development Dot RB2:51
Modify the Rails development configuration by editing config/environments/development.rb to set the host to your cloud 9 URL and remove port 3000.
Sign In Sign Up Sign Out6:01
Flash Helper2:41
Learn to enable and style flash messages in Rails by adding the flash helper to the application layout and testing sign in, sign out, and sign up.

Heroku.com Gems3:03
Sign up for Heroku, verify your account, and prepare your app for production. Add rails_12factor and pg gems to a production group, then run bundle install to deploy.
Heroku Production Push8:13
Rails Console and Heroku6:59
Open the rails console in your development environment and explore three sample users with commands like user.all, user.first, and user.find. Reload with bang, assign variables, and exit to continue next.

Bootstrap css and Navbar-Brand4:32
Link To
Contact and About Links2:29
Add contact and about links to the navigation bar, move other links into a dropdown, and hide sign in/up when the user is signed in.
Title Tab Favi1:53
Update the site title from workspace to your site name in the layout, shown with Steve's articles; optionally replace the logo in the public directory.
Adding Layouts To Pages5:00
Two Footers!2:17
If Else End Footer4:16
Use an if-else in Ruby on Rails to display different footers based on whether a user is signed in, swapping a large footer for a small one.
If else

Generate A Migration4:13
Generate a migration adding first name and last name to the users table, plus an admin boolean with default false. Run rake db:migrate and update forms via strong parameters.
Migration
Custom Registration4:53
Create a custom registrations controller inheriting from the Devise registrations controller to save username, first name, and last name using strong parameters, and test saving to the database.
Edit My Profile3:38
Enable users to edit their profile, including email and password changes with current password verification, by adjusting the user registration views, devise routes, and profile navigation.
Showing Links Based On Status9:13
learn how to conditionally display links in a Ruby on Rails app using current_user and embedded Ruby, toggling sign in, sign out, sign up, and edit profile in a dropdown.
Edit The Sign Up Form4:44
Add username, first name, and last name fields to the sign up form and make first name and last name optional.
Edit The Edit User Registration4:28
Git Push0:08

Requirements

A little understanding of HTML is helpful, but it’s not required

Description

When developing this course I wanted to really focus on the new developer. I have set things up so you can come into this course with no experience and once you complete the lessons you will be able to construct and deploy a Ruby on Rails application. The focus is on how to construct an application and not on "building a 'Time Machine' using Rails".

Some areas covered include: MVC, CRUD, Github, Heroku, Rails Console, Cloud 9, Rails Generators, Gems and other important topics.

Once you have completed this course you will have this skill to build out your very own application using a "step by step" approach or by using Rails generators.

Our first Model is our "User", we cover how this "Model" can be anything you desire.

We then look at styling your site using Gems and Bootstrap. I also show you resources on where to find cool Bootstrap layouts that you can simply drop into your application.

We then cover how to build association between a "User Model" and a "Article Model". This is an important step in any applications as it gives the ability to associate objects in your database.

Each Video comes with a text lecture and PDF which allows you to download the code that relates to each video.

We all need to walk before we run and so I hope you will join me on this walk into Ruby on Rails a Beginners Guide.

Who this course is for:

This Course is designed for beginners. If you already know how to create a site using rails this course is not for you.

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Introduction - Welcome To Ruby on Rails a Beginners Guide3 lectures • 7min

Inner Workings - Pulling Back The Curtain3 lectures • 17min

Create and Preview Our Application3 lectures • 13min

Git Version Control4 lectures • 18min

App Time - Creating Public Pages3 lectures • 19min

Getting Sassy8 lectures • 30min

Setting Up Users5 lectures • 31min

Heroku3 lectures • 18min

Stylish6 lectures • 20min

Updating Our Users7 lectures • 31min

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