Rails Syllabus

Weeks 1 and 2

Object Oriented Programming

• Basic object composition and syntax with exercises gradually increasing in complexity creating a functional blackjack game from command-line.

Weeks 3 and 4

Testing Intro

• Rspec tests
• Test Driven Development
• learning testing syntax for unit and method tests
• learning to follow tests to construct ruby classes

Weeks 5 and 6

Web Protocols

• Basic web protocol syntax
• creating dynamic web apps with sinatra
• web forms
• dynamic routing and saving/pulling data from a csv file

Weeks 7 and 8

Web Cont'd

• Acceptance testing with capybara
• Creation of more advanced dynamic web-pages with CRUD actions
• Some information on web-design, style guides and using foundation or bootstrap.

Weeks 9 and 10

Tables & Databases

• SQL basics with Postgres and Ruby
• creating SQL tables
• SQL queries
• SQL joins
• modifying web apps to use a SQL database instead of a CSV

Weeks 11 and 12

CRUD apps

• ActiveRecord basics
• migrations
• CRUD actions
• validations and associations
• creating ER diagrams
• building a CRUD app with Sinatra and ActiveRecord
• testing ActiveRecord models and associations with RSpec
• following tests to create a functional app.

Weeks 13 and 14

Rails

• Ruby on Rails Intro
• setting up Rails
• MVC pattern
• Rails forms
• testing Rails Controllers
• creating a stack-overflow style CRUD app
• following tests to create a review site