Ruby on Rails

ideal for

To all programmers who want to acquire skills in Ruby on Rails.

Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the Rails Framework

• Use ActiveRecord

• Use Ajax in Rails applications

• Deploy Web applications to Application / Web servers (e.g. tomcat)

• Work with Object-oriented principles and MVC

• Use Ruby for e-business applications.

• Build dynamic database-driven web sites.

Prerequisite Knowledge

Students must have skills in Object Oriented Programming

Course Program

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