The Complete TDD Course: Master Ruby Development with RSpec

Name: The Complete TDD Course: Master Ruby Development with RSpec
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Volume 1: Become a development Jedi, Learn how to build flawless programs, Develop clean code to solve complex problems

Created byMashrur Hossain, Emmanuel Asante

Last updated 12/2017

English

What you'll learn

Build beautiful (and complex) error free applications
Build complete test suites with RSpec
Go from beginner to advanced in Test Driven Development
Go in-depth into the structure of programs and peel the layers off complex apps and turn them to smaller manageable pieces
Break down bigger problems to smaller pieces and master OOP in the process

Coding Exercises

This course includes our updated coding exercises so you can practice your skills as you learn.

Course content

5 sections • 42 lectures • 7h 41m total length

Introduction1:38
Introduction to the instructor and the course
Demo of final project built in the course4:40
Ruby coding warm-up3:23
Let's get the muscle memory working in the fingers by practicing some Ruby code
Ruby warm-up quiz
Ruby warm-up quiz 2
Ruby warmup
How to get help in and access documentation for the course4:23
Guidance on how to use the Q & A interface and access the live help chatline. Also includes link to the accompanying documentation (steps and code) available for the course

Section overview: Development environment setup3:12
This section is used to set up a development environment. Two options are provided using guided video for this, along with references to other options. If students already have a working Ruby environment, they can skip this entire section
Sign up and use online IDE10:43
Sign-up with cloud9 or codeanywhere for a free online integrated development environment which comes pre-installed with the tools we need
Get familiar with online IDE19:51
Get familiar with online IDE environments, covering both cloud9 and codeanywhere
Local development environment setup resource (optional)3:20
Resource to use to setup local development environment (optional)

Install RSpec and create first spec12:14
Install the popular testing framework RSpec and learn how to create specs
Intro to Test Driven Development using RSpec11:24
Introduction to Test Driven Development. Learn how to think from a testing perspective and use RSpec to design the flow of programs
Project: Palindrome - Spec16:21
Start project which builds a function that checks for if a word is a Palindrome
Project: Palindrome - Completion19:52
Complete the function to check for words being Palindromes
Let's test our knowledge so far
Project: Object Oriented Programming and DRY16:38
Learn about OOP and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) using a student class example
Refactor code and use additional tools12:46
Learn how to refactor and group code using describe
Arithmetic in Ruby11:53
Learn how to perform and test for Arithmetic functions
Test somethings we have learnt so far
Strings18:33
Learn and write specs for Strings
Strings - 217:14
Continue exploration of Strings
Hash and Arrays - Collections review17:08
Brief run-through of Hash and Arrays in Ruby known as collections
Collections Quiz
Project preview - Products inventory1:18
Preview of completed products project
Project: TDD and OOP for products14:18
Build a simple product inventory system using TDD and using OOP concepts
Project: TDD and OOP for products completion and next steps15:00
Complete the products inventory system with additional methods and next steps
Solution to inventory value homework0:21
Spec and the method implementation for the homework project from the last video
Data types, Collections and OOP

Preview for what is covered in the section4:00
Learn about card, deck and hand classes and how to bring them together to build a blackjack game
Blackjack game rules we will follow and use2:50
Blackjack is a very popular game and lots of video demos are present for familiarizing yourself with the rules if you are not familiar. For our implementation we will use some rules which we will define here
Setup Card - build individual cards for use15:20
Develop specs for and then implement the card class, this will be one of the primary building blocks for a card game
Create Deck spec18:47
Think about and set up decks of cards
Complete Deck implementation16:08
Create a working Deck class
Create Deck runner and use the deck of cards6:01
Making the deck usable, using a runner and ensuring execution flows correctly
Let's recap some methods
Create Hand spec11:01
Start building a hand, which consists of multiple cards and dealt
Calculate value for hands15:10
Design a mechanism to calculate the value of hands dealt
Important to learn this method
Compress code and complete hand class18:46
Learn how to use cleaner and more compressed code to complete the hand class

Preview of the section and completed final project2:42
We will use what we built in the last section and put them together in a blackjack class with spec and runner files in this section
Start blackjack project15:24
Setup project spec, shell methods and constructor
Specs test
Deal hands18:17
Implement dealing out hands for player/dealer to start the game
Hit function19:33
Implement the hit function for the gamers
Stand function12:24
Implement the stand function for gamers
Show hands14:43
Implement the show hands feature so the contents of the hands can be displayed
Set results19:46
Implement the set results function to determine and display the winner of the game
Finalize the runner and test the program flow6:29
Complete modification of the runner to ensure smooth execution of the game and test results
Project: Add spec and implement solution to 'Ace face down' value issue2:28
During implementation, one flaw was discovered with the display of value of a hand when an ace is present and face down ('show' is false). This is a project to resolve the issue
Project solution4:55
Solution to project where hand value is displayed incorrectly when 'show' is off for an Ace
Thank you!0:27
Thank you for taking the course!

Requirements

Some exposure to programming in any language will be helpful (beginner level exposure is ok)
Please note this is volume 1 of a course series and covers Ruby development and RSpec, by the end you will master not just Ruby for programming applications and RSpec for testing but also web development with Ruby on Rails
No software purchase is necessary in advance for this course (all software and tools used in the course are free)
Ok for beginner level programmers as well, but not suitable for complete beginners who have no exposure to any programming languages in the past

Description

Programming and web application development with Ruby and Ruby on Rails is on fire, they are some of the hottest skill-sets you can have in the booming tech industry and you can master it - beginner to expert - right here in this course series.

I'm Mashrur, creator of the best selling Ruby on Rails courses here in Udemy and I specialize in training Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, MySQL and so on. I absolutely love sharing my development secrets with my you!

I build each and every course with you in mind. With feedback from previous courses and incorporating the latest and hottest technologies out there - I strive to make each new course better than the last so students have the best learning experience ever.

This is volume 1 of the Test Driven Development Course and will help you master spec creation with RSpec as you build beautiful, error-free applications with Ruby, one of the easiest and most developer friendly programming languages out there.

You'll learn how to take bigger, complex problems and turn them into bite-sized pieces so development becomes as easy as watching TV (well not quite that easy, but you get the picture). There has never been a time where building fun, practical, efficient applications was this easy. Don't take my word for it - check out the free preview video for the final project built in the course!

Become a development Jedi and go from beginner to advanced in this easy to follow course built solely with you, the student, in mind. It's jam packed with quizzes, coding exercises and practice tests to ensure you learn the material which is presented and are able to retain and re-use it at your will.

You will get full, responsive support for all your questions in the Question and Answer section of the course. You will also have free access to the live chat support where you can interact with other Ruby on Rails developers, current and past students, Teaching Assistants and myself from time to time as well. This course is truly there to support you in your development journey, no matter where you are in it.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to become a professional developer
Anyone who wants to build beautiful and error free applications
Anyone who wants to learn testing while developing code
Anyone who wants to take their coding skills to the next level
This course is for beginners with some prior exposure to programming, but also for intermediate (even experts) who want to learn test driven development and tools

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Introduction4 lectures • 14min

Setup Ruby on Rails - Online IDE and local4 lectures • 37min

Get started with Test Driven Development14 lectures • 3hr 5min

Set up individual classes for broader project9 lectures • 1hr 48min

Final Project - Blackjack Game11 lectures • 1hr 57min

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