Ruby on Rails

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Course Overview


Ruby is an open-source programming language created by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. It blends features of Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp, Ada and Eiffel to form a language that balances imperative and functional programming, and is highly portable. Ruby on Rails is a popular open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by focussing on convention over configuration. The Ruby on Rails Training Course will introduce Participants to the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails framework.

Course Content


Ruby's syntax, object model, and major built-in classes

  • Basic object-orientation principles
  • Program design with Ruby
  • The use of Ruby as a "scripting" tool for administrative tasks
  • Testing basics and Ruby testing facilities

Basic Ruby concepts and features

  • "Everything's an object"
  • Local variables and assignment
  • Top-level method definitions
  • Arithmetic and logical operators
  • Global variables
  • The default object (self)

Object orientation in Ruby

  • Messages and methods
  • Ruby's class model
  • Inheritance
  • The object method lookup-path

Classes and modules

  • Class methods
  • Constants
  • Module "mix-ins" in classes
  • Modules as namespaces
  • Instance method definition syntax
  • Reopening class and module definitions
  • Overriding methods

Instances and attributes

  • Instance variables
  • Attribute setter and getter techniques
  • Ruby and the "Equal Access Principle"

Strings, symbols, and regular expressions

  • Basic string manipulation and indexing
  • Symbols and the symbol table
  • Regular expression syntax
  • Pattern-matching with scan, sub, and match

Collection objects and iterators

  • Array, Hash, and Range classes
  • Code blocks and iteration
  • Creating iterators with the Enumerable module
  • Collection filtering, selecting, and transforming
  • Enumerators and external iteration

Object dynamism

  • Adding singleton methods to objects
  • Modular extension of per-object behavior
  • Singleton classes
  • Extending existing classes

Threads

  • Starting, running, stopping threads
  • Threads and variable scope
  • Thread-safety considerations

Lambdas and function objects

  • Creating first-class functions
  • Lambda argument semantics
  • Variable scope and closures
  • Block, Proc, lambda interaction

Metaprogramming

  • The eval family of methods
  • Programmatic method creation
  • Runtime reflection on objects
  • Traversing ObjectSpace
  • method_missing and other hooks and callbacks

Exception handling

  • The Exception class hierarchy
  • Raising exceptions
  • Rescue and ensure clauses
  • Writing your own exception classes

File and I/O operations

  • Keyboard input and screen output
  • Basic file reading and writing
  • File handles as iterators
  • Low-level I/O techniques

Date, time, and numeric types

  • Date, Time, and DateTime classes
  • Date calculation and parsing
  • Integers and floating-point numbers

The standard library

  • StringIO hybrid objects
  • Struct and OpenStruct
  • Math extensions
  • FileUtils and Pathname
  • Socket and network programming facilities
  • Administrative and system libraries

Testing in Ruby

  • Unit testing principles
  • The MiniTest and TestUnit libraries

Ruby tools

  • Interactive Ruby (irb)
  • Embedded Ruby (erb)
  • The RubyGems packaging system
  • Rake task management utility

Rails Fundamentals

  • Rails overview and walkthrough
  • The Model-View-Controller framework architecture
  • Creating a new Rails application
  • Rails request-handling and URL parsing
  • Development-mode deployment
  • Generating models and controllers

Database Creation and Configuration

  • Basic MySQL creation commands
  • Configuring database.yml
  • Automatically-generated migrations
  • Custom migrations

Working with ActiveRecord

  • Modeling a domain
  • ActiveRecord models and Ruby classes
  • ActiveRecord associations
  • Writing Rails-friendly SQL
  • Data validation techniques

ActionView Essentials

  • RHTML templates
  • Embedded Ruby (ERb)
  • Partial templates
  • Built-in and custom helper methods
  • Layouts

Using ActionController

  • The session and flash facilities
  • Planning and writing actions
  • Controller/view communication via instance variables
  • The special params hash
  • Filter methods for specific actions
  • Redirecting actions
  • Explicit rendering commands

Working with Forms in Rails

  • ActionPack form helper methods
  • "Magic" form-field population
  • Processing forms
  • Hash-based batch processing of CGI data

Routing and REST

  • The routes.rb file
  • Simple route customization
  • Named routes
  • Resource mapping
  • Default REST action names

Session management and security

  • The session hash
  • Password deployment and encryption
  • Avoiding SQL injection

Deployment

  • Distributed deployment with Capistrano
  • Mongrel and mongrel_cluster
  • Load-balancing with Apache and nginx

Testing in Rails

  • Writing fixtures
  • Unit tests
  • Functional tests
  • Integration tests

AJAX, JavaScript, and RJS

  • JavaScript facilities and support in Rails
  • Basic DOM updating with AJAX calls
  • RJS templates
  • Graceful degradation of AJAX

Reflective Rails

  • The Rails application console
  • Examining the Rails source code tree
  • The API docs

Customer Reviews


Thanks to Xpertised and the tutor who walked me through all the topics with Practical exposure which is helping me in my current project.
-Waseem

Course was quite helpful in terms of understanding of concepts and practicality. Its really a very friendly environment to learn. The timing were mutually chosen, as we both are working professional. I am quite satisfied with the course.
-Tanmoy

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