Databases in Ruby on Rails: Advanced Concepts


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level



Overview/Description
This course covers how to use advanced features to work with Ruby on Rails databases. It covers star schemas, lists and calendar tables, multi-valued dimensions as well as columnar databases. It also covers working with the InnoDB engine as well as managing deadlocks, scan locks and concurrency.

Target Audience
Programmers who want to learn to use advanced features available for working with databases in Ruby on Rails

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.1

Lesson Objectives

Databases in Ruby on Rails: Advanced Concepts

  • start the course
  • demonstrates the uses of Star Schemas and explain an example showing Fact and Dimension tables
  • up a range of models through the use of a Star Schema
  • use a star schema in a Ruby on Rails application for warehouse type queries
  • represent a child table of objects as an ordered list in Ruby on Rails
  • use Ruby on Rails to build a Calendar table with multiple fields, and use code to insert data into the table
  • create a table for multi-valued dimensions in Ruby on Rails
  • write a query for data stored as multi-valued dimensions in a database in Ruby on Rails
  • work with a columnar database using Ruby on Rails.
  • set up the InnoDB engine in Ruby on Rails to support transactions that the default MySQL storage engine otherwise doesn't support
  • work with InnoDB locking in Rails using a transaction and a controller
  • resolve deadlocks when working with databases in Ruby on Rails
  • uses various tools and ways to avoid table scans and negate table locks in Ruby on Rails databases
  • outline ways to efficiently deploy multi-threaded Ruby on Rails applications on a multi-threaded server and a multi-process server.
  • fine tune your application to effectively deal with concurrent requests in Ruby on Rails
  • a unique key constraint and then have the Ruby on Rails model validate it with a couple of simple commands
  • index a Ruby on Rails database variable as a foreign key
  • create and use a Star Schema
  • Course Number:
    pg_rubr_a05_it_enus

    Expertise Level
    Intermediate