Introduction to Rails

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

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Overview/Description
Rails is a powerful web application framework written in Ruby. Rails puts a strong emphasis on the programming paradigms of convention over configuration and don't repeat yourself. In this course, you will learn the basics of the Rails environment. You'll learn about routing, what the ActionController does, and how to do seeding.

Target Audience
Programmers looking to expand their skill set in the Rails environment

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.9

Lesson Objectives

Introduction to Rails

start the course

describe Rails

set up the Rails environment

create a new project

recall how to change different settings

describe where the secrets.yml file is found and what it contains

describe how to use the bundler

create a new Logger and describe how the Rails.logger method is used

generate a basic scaffold

describe the scaffold

describe what the routes.rb file is and how it is used

describe how to use a singular resource route

create nested resource routes

create shallow resource routes

create static pages

describe what migrations are and how they are used

create and sequence a migration

perform and roll back a migration

recall what some of the migration and database constraints are

recall how to edit the seeds.rb file

describe the controller actions INDEX, NEW, and CREATE

describe the member actions SHOW, EDIT, UPDATE, and DESTROY

use respond_to to render JSON and XML

use the ActionController::Live module

use action callbacks

use variants to render different templates based on some criteria

generate a basic scaffold and create shallow routes

Course Number:
sd_rorf_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate