Get Started With Ruby on Rails TFx

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Course Description

Ruby on Rails is an open-source framework that allows you to quickly and easily build applications for the web. It’s a framework designed with developer productivity and happiness in mind. With Rails you can create web applications with very little effort through strong conventions, sensible defaults and a great set of libraries. If you want to get started building web applications, Ruby on Rails is a great place to start!

In this course, you’ll learn about developing web applications with Ruby on Rails. We will build a simple task and project management tool together. In so doing, we’ll cover the foundations of Rails: models, controllers and views. We’ll also go further, touching on most of the key features of the Rails framework: validations, migrations, the asset pipeline, email delivery, internationalization, AJAX integration and more!

What You’ll Learn

• Build a Rails application from scratch, starting with bootstrapping and scaffolding.
• How to use different validation helpers to validate user input.
• Rails’s unique way of handling CSS and JavaScript files.
• How to use migrations and AJAX remote calls.
• How to enable internationalization for your application.
• Set up email notifications.

About the Instructor

José Mota is a Rubyist, Javascripter, UI designer, occasional speaker, and Mac & Arch Linux user. You can find out more on his website.