Ruby on Rails

Who will the Course Benefit?

Developers who are required to write,maintain and test Ruby applications and projects based on Ruby on Rails.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide the delegate with the knowledge to be able to understand,develop and maintain Ruby applications and Rails based projects.

Ruby on Rails Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materialsqq
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: REST

• What is REST
• RESTful architecture
• A simple REST client

Session 2: INTRODUCTION TO RUBY ON RAILS

• Install Ruby on Rails on an operating system
• The Model-View-Controller approach
• Rails Conventions
• Rails project structure
• Using RubyGems with Rails

Session 3: ROUTING

• What is a Route
• Define routes that recognize incoming URLs
• Use named route methods to generate URLs based on the routing scheme
• Apply and understand the RESTful routing conventions
• Design apps to take advantage of the REST conventions in Rails

Session 4: MODELS

• What is a Model
• Using ActiveRecord
• Validations
• Associations
• Migrations

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: : CONTROLLERS

• What is a Controller
• Creating controllers
• Using ActionController
• Writing Actions
• Filters

Session 6: VIEWS

• What is a View
• Exploring ActionView
• Writing Views for actions
• Partials
• Forms

Session 7: CREATING A RAILS PROJECT

• Creating the project
• Project Directory structure
• Using the Rails web server
• Creating the initial controller
• Modify the initial index.html file
• Setting the Route
• Creating a resource
• Viewing routes with rake

Session 8: RAILS SCAFFOLDING

• What is Scaffolding
• Creating a new project
• Generating the Rail Scaffold
• Customising the application

Requirements

Delegates attending this course should have experience programming in Ruby. This knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the pre-requisite Ruby Programming course.

Further Learning

• Apache Web Server
• Introduction to MySQL
• Python Programming 1
• PHP Programming
• Perl Programming