Ruby on Rails training: Introduction to Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails Training Outline

• The Rails World
• Rails overview and walkthrough
• What you do with Rails, and why
• Framework principles and tradeoffs
• The Model-View-Controller framework architecture
• Creating a new Rails application
• The Rails application directory layout
• Rails request-handling and URL parsing
• Customizing the application's routing
• Deploying with Mongrel
• The Rails philosophy: "Convention over configuration"
• Ruby Skills and Tools
• Objects and methods
• Scalars: strings, numbers, dates and times
• Collections: arrays, hashes
• Sorting and filtering collections
• Classes and modules
• Control flow and conditionals
• Interactive Ruby (IRB)
• Attributes
• Iterators
• Exception and error-handling
• Database Creation and Configuration
• Basic MySQL creation commands
• Configuring database.yml
• Working with ActiveRecord Models
• Modeling a domain
• Generating models with script/generate
• ActiveRecord models and Ruby classes
• ActiveRecord associations
• Writing Rails-friendly SQL
• Data validation techniques
• Avoiding SQL injection
• Database maintenance with ActiveRecord Migrations
• Automatically-generated migrations
• Custom migrations
• Writing accurate "down" methods
• Keeping migrations in sync
• ActionView Essentials
• HTML/ERb (Embedded Ruby) templates
• Partial templates
• Built-in and custom helper methods
• Layouts
• The 'flash' facility
• Avoiding HTML injection
• Using ActionController
• Creating controllers with script/generate
• Planning and writing actions
• Controller/view communication via instance variables
• The special params hash
• Filter methods for specific actions
• Redirecting actions
• Explicit rendering commands
• Session management
• Working with Forms in Rails
• ActionPack form helper methods
• "Magic" form-field population
• Processing forms
• Hash-based batch processing of CGI data
• Testing in Rails
• Writing fixtures
• Generating fixtures from a database
• Unit testing
• Functional testing
• Ajax, JavaScript, and RJS
• JavaScript facilities and support in Rails
• Basic DOM updating with Ajax calls
• RJS templates
• Rails Supporting Rails
• The Rails application console
• The source code tree
• The API docs
• Conclusion