Mastering Ruby On Rails 7 - The Complete Reference Guide

Trace the Rails request response lifecycle from a user request through routing, controller actions, and model queries, and pass data to the view via instance variables.

Create a brand new Rails web application with rails new basics of Rails using skip git, explore project anatomy, and run Rails server to view the default home page.

Create a Rails 7.2.1 application, skip git setup, install dependencies with bundle install, and run the server to view the say hello world demo on port 3000.

Create a new home controller with actions, following MVC conventions. Generate related files and set routes for index, then render plain text or HTML and use html_safe to display HTML.

Create a new get query string values action to read message and country from the params hash, render a response, and wire routes to access controller and action.

Learn how to pass data from controller actions to views in Ruby on Rails 7, using instance variables and ERB to render values in html.erb templates.

Create a show date time info action in the home controller, assign current time to an instance variable, and display month day weekday year time zone in the view.

Pass multiple variables from a controller to a view by building a hash of key value pairs in an instance variable and access its keys in the template.

Explore conditional rendering in Rails views using the if tag helper, covering boolean, string, and numeric conditions with else, else if, end, and the or and operators.

Loop through an array of product records with the Rails each method in ERB, displaying data in a bootstrap table and form controls, with data sourced from APIs or databases.

Learn how to debug Rails apps by inspecting template variables with view helpers such as debug, to_yaml, and simple_format, and examine instance and local variables in ERB templates.

Learn how to debug Rails 7 apps with the debug gem, insert debugger statements and breakpoints, and inspect local and instance variables to trace execution.

Learn how to debug Rails 7 apps with the web console gem, using the browser or controller action or view template, to inspect instance and local variables and rendered output.

Explore how to implement Rails logging across development, production, and test environments, using debug, info, warn, error, and fatal levels, with stdout and custom log files.

Learn how to call a rest api from Rails app, fetch json data, and render it in a Bootstrap table, using the http party gem and load_users action.

Fetch ten users from a REST API in a Rails 7 app and render each as a bootstrap card with id, name, and email, plus a random avatar image.

Explore implementing show one user at a time using redirect_to and the link_to tag helper, with turbo rails for client-side events, and navigate between users via previous and next buttons.

Learn to run jquery code inside a rails app with jquery-rails, toggle address details div via a checkbox onchange event, and switch the label between show and hide address details.

Configure SQLite3 as the Rails back end, explore database.yml adapters for development, test, and production, and create an employee table via migrations with first name and last name.

Install sql server 2022 developer edition from microsoft downloads and set up the database engine services. Configure windows authentication and verify sql server runs to prepare connections for django applications.

Install and set up SQL Server Management Studio to interact with the SQL server database, including downloading SSMS 19.2 and completing a straightforward installation.

Configure a Rails app to speak to a SQL Server database. Install tinytds and activerecord-sqlserver-adapter, run bundle install, and configure database.yml with SQL Server adapter, host, and Rails course DB.

Create an employee model and migrate the database to build an employees table with first name, last name, email, phone, and timestamps, then add fields via migrations, updating the schema.

Perform crud operations on the employees table from the rails console, using new, save, create, find, find by, all, and destroy to manage records in the rails development environment.

Display all employee records from the employees table in a rails app using an index action, an index view with a bootstrap table, and route /employees.

demonstrates displaying an individual employee via a show action, with a details link in index, a show template, and a route to fetch by id, plus back to list navigation.

Explore editing in Rails 7: build an edit form with text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, and date pickers, wired to an employee model via edit action, routes, and views.

Implement the update action in Rails to patch and update employee records using employee_params, and redirect to the employees index on success or render the edit view on failure.

Implement delete functionality by adding a delete_employee action and delete_employee.html.erb (copying edit flow) with a destroy action and delete route that finds the employee and redirects to the employees list.

Learn to implement insert functionality in rails seven by creating a new employee form, wiring routes to new and create actions, and saving data with employee params.