Quick Dive into Ruby on Rails

We'll be taking a quick tour of Ruby on Rails, the popular web development framework. We'll see why Rails is special, how you can get started and some information about debugging, unit testing and acceptance testing.

Topics Covered:

A tour through `rails new`
Ruby Gems and Bundler
Rails Apps and Rails Composer
Generating a scaffold
Generating a migration
Virtual Attributes
AJAX Support
Debugging with Pry
Unit Testing with RSpec
Feature Testing with Capybara

Transcript

1. Quick Dive into Ruby on Rails By Hosam Aly
2. Agenda  A Tour Through `rails new`  Ruby Gems and Bundler  Samples, Tutorials, and a Toolbox  Quick Dive: A Practical Tour
3. Installation  Ruby Installer for Windows  RVM (Ruby Version Manager)  Installing required packages  Installing Ruby and Rails
4. A tour through `rails new`  Creating a sample application  Dissecting the output of `rails new`  Directory structure  Gem file  Git support  Configuration files  Database files  Test files
5. Ruby Gems and Bundler  What is a gem?  A deeper look into the Gemfile  Gemfile options and version operators  A quick look at a gem’s source code  The role of bundler  `bundle update`  `bundle show`
6. Samples, Tutorials, and a Toolbox!  Rails Apps  The Ruby Toolbox  Rails Composer
7. Quick Dive: a practical tour  New app with Rails Composer  Dissecting the composed app  Generating a scaffold  Generating a migration  Virtual attributes  AJAX support  Debugging with Pry  Unit Testing with RSpec  Feature Testing with Capybara
8. Resources  RubyGems: http://rubygems.org/  Bundler: http://gembundler.com/  RubyInstaller for Windows: http://rubyinstaller.org/  RailsCasts: http://railscasts.com/  The RailsApps Project: http://railsapps.github.com/  Rails Composer: http://railsapps.github.com/rails-composer/  The Ruby Toolbox: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/  Ruby on Rails Course: https://github.com/generalassembly/ga-ruby-on-rails-for-devs