Ruby on Rails

Part 1: Ruby Programming Language

Introduction to Ruby on Rails

• What is Ruby Programming Language
• Ruby on Rails web application framework
• Example of Rails Apps
• History of Rails
• Model
• View
• Controller
• Ruby background
• Ruby installation and documentation

Tools

• Command Line
• Text Editor
• Git
• Gems
• Rake
• Test Frameworks
• Deploying a Rails application

Ruby Programming Basics

• Working with different datatypes
• Defining Constants
• Using Operators
• Expressions
• Strings, symbols, and numbers
• Introduction to Arrays
• Working with Hashes
• Generator and Predicate Ranges
• The if Statement
• Using the else / elsif Statements
• Using the unless Statement
• Understanding Modifiers
• The case Statement
• Loops and conditional expressions
• While & Until loops
• Methods and Arguments

Part 2: Ruby on Rails Framework

Rails Introduction

• The Architecture
• the Model-View-Controller pattern
• Rails project structure
• Scaffolding for jumpstart
• Putting Ruby on Rails
• Creating a Controller / an Action / a View
• Adding HTML in The View
• Passing Data from an Action to a View
• Using Sessions
• Accessing user data via form controls
• Using data in Controls
• Working with Modules
• Applying Controls to Modules
• Rails Application Directory
• Server Script
• Console Script

Ruby Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

• Create a Class
• Constructor and destructor
• Objects
• Classes
• Core Ruby
• Common Standard Library Classes
• Scope
• Blocks
• Modules
• fields & methods
• access control like public, protected, private
• class variables
• Ruby inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Garbage collection
• Exceptions and flow control

Ruby on Rails Scaffolding

• What is Scaffolding
• Modifying Scaffolding

Ruby on Rails Controllers

• What are Controllers
• Routing
• URL Generation
• Cookies
• Sessions
• Talking Between Actions
• Filters

Ruby on Rails Views

• What are Views
• RHTML
• Pagination
• Layouts
• Partial Page Templates

Handling Form Views

• Forms
• Text Field & Area Tags
• Date & time Fields
• Selection Lists
• Radio Buttons & Checkboxes
• File Upload
• Links

Part 3: Ruby on Rails with Database

Models & Ruby Database

• Database access using Active Record
• Query your data using the query language in Active Relation
• Use validations and callbacks to enforce data integrity
• building databases for ActiveRecord
• Creating ActiveRecord models
• Attributes
• Date-Time Fields
• Primary Keys
• Model Relationships
• One-to-One 1-1 Relationships
• One-to-Many 1-n Relationships
• Many-to-Many n-n Relationships
• Basic Searches
• Advanced Searches
• Table-naming conventions
• Displaying data from the database
• Connecting to a database
• Create and Name the Model and Controller
• Adding & Editing records to the database

Part 4: Advanced Ruby on Rails

Ajax with Rails

• What is AJAX or
• Nature of Ajax interaction
• Rails Ajax helpers and RJS

Agile Rails Development

• Rails conventions.
• Create web apps using an iterative (agile) development style
• Agile coding practices such as refactoring, DRY, and so on

Testing Ruby on Rails applications

• Rails testing units
• Testing Models
• Testing Controllers
• Security in Rails

Ruby on Rails Security

• Overview
• SQL Issues
• CSS Issues