The Complete Ruby on Rails Developer Course

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Introduction to the Ruby programming language and explore 3 different ways of writing a program to say "Hello World!"

Text code as follow-up for lecture on introduction to Ruby

Start working with Strings

Working with Strings in Ruby

Working with Strings in Ruby - text with directions, references and code

Code for the Analyzer program homework assignment

Working with numbers and methods in Ruby

Working with numbers in Ruby - text with directions, references and code

Text code for homework solution for working with numbers - Advanced Analyzer Program

Introduction to comparison operators in Ruby

More methods and branching techniques in Ruby

Explore branching with if/elsif/else/end blocks

More methods and branching techniques in Ruby - text with directions, references and code

Working with arrays and iterators in Ruby

Working with arrays and iterators in Ruby - text with directions, references and code

Working with hashes in Ruby

Working with hashes in Ruby - text with directions, references and code

Project explanation and handoff

Implementation of authentication project

Code for completed authenticator project

A guide to styling in Ruby (indentation, tabs, spaces and more)

Ruby styling - text with directions and references

Homework assignment to build an area code dictionary using a hash structure

Text instructions for Homework Assignment to build an area code dictionary

Solution to the homework assignment to build an area code dictionary

Solution to homework assignment of creating an area code dictionary - text version

Try ruby to practice ruby skills acquired so far (Note: try ruby site has changed, new link to access it provided in the previous text lecture)

Classes, Objects, Instance variables and more

Text directions, references and code for intro to object oriented programming - working with classes, objects, instance variables and more

Introduction to inheritance and modules in Ruby

Introduction to inheritance and modules in ruby - text directions, references and code

Final project for Ruby section part 1 - working with and learning about MD5 hashing with salt and using bcrypt gem

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Add methods that will aid in a user authentication system

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Learn how to create and use a module

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Brief look at what self.method_name accomplishes

Bringing it all together

Conclusion of the project and section 2

Introducing the Ruby on Rails framework

Text follow-up for Intro to Section 3 and Ruby on Rails kickoff

Structure of a Rails application explained

Text follow-up to lecture on MVC structure of Rails applications

Complete local installation or Cloud-based IDE setup of Ruby on Rails prior to moving forward from this point in the course.

Learn how to build a route, add a controller and actions

Text directions and references for root route, controller and more MVC

A detailed look at the structure of a Rails application

Text references for the prior video on the structure of Rails applications

Introduction to Git, version control and using Git for version control

Text references for the previous video lecture on version control with Git

Setup an remote code repository using Github and push local code to the repository

Text directions and references for setting up online code repository

Lecture with resources to learn and practice HTML/CSS

Text references from the prior video lecture on learning HTML/CSS

Learn how to add additional views and homework assignment

Text directions and code for the prior video lecture

Optional: Deploy app to production using Heroku

Text directions for deploying app to production using Heroku

Intro to Create, Read, Update and Delete database operations, scaffold generators and wrap up Section 3

View a demo of creating an articles resource using scaffold generators - which provide all CRUD actions out of the box

Text directions, references and code for CRUD database operations and scaffold generators

Preview of Alpha Blog App, application built from scratch without generators to understand fundamentals of rails applications, built through to end of section 7.

Introduction to working with rails back-end: tables, migrations and naming conventions

Text directions and references for working with tables, migrations and naming conventions

Learn about models and working with the rails console

Text directions and references for the previous video

Learn how to perform CRUD operations from the rails console

Text directions and code for performing CRUD operations from the rails console

Learn how to add validations or constraints to models

Text references for video on validations

Learn how to build the show articles feature

Text references and code for adding the show action for articles

Build an articles listing feature

Text directions for adding an articles listing page

Add ability to create new articles by adding a new article creation form

Text references and code for creating new articles from the browser

Add the create action to save articles to the articles table

Text directions and code for the create action to complete the new article creation process

Display helpful messages to users of the app

Learn to display validation error messages and flash display

Add ability to update existing articles

Text reference follow-up to the edit and update actions

Add ability to delete existing articles

Add the deleting articles functionality

Add helpful links to perform app functions and navigation

Text reference for all the code added to cleanup the layout of the application

Cleanup code using code refactoring and partials

Extracting away code redundancies using refactoring and form partials

Deploy application to production and wrap up section 4

Deploy code to production using heroku

Introduction to styling and mockups

Learn to use Bootstrap for styling

Learn the difference between Rails 6 and earlier versions in how they handle front-end assets, also learn how CSS and JavaScript is managed by Rails apps.

Text directions, references and code for installing bootstrap-sass

Install Bootstrap in earlier versions of Rails

Text directions and code for completing homepage

Build homepage using Bootstrap

Text references for building homepage

Modify layout links using Bootstrap classes with Rails code

Layout links - text references

Add styling to the articles index view

Text directions and code for styling index view

Add styling to the form partial shared by new and edit templates

Text directions and code for styling articles listing view

Style validation messages, flash messages and deal with field_with_errors div

Text references for video on styling messages

Add styling to the articles show page

Text references for the show view styling video

Clean up views and layout, deploy application to production and wrap up section 5

Text reference for code changes made in the previous video

Introduction to the section covering users, one-to-many associations and ERD

Introduction to associations between models and implementation demo using the rails console

Create User model and users table

Text directions and code for creating User model and users table using feature branch

Add validations to User model

Text directions and code for adding validations to User model

Add a one-to-many association between users and articles

Text directions and code to add the one-to-many association between users and articles

Show user data in articles

Text directions for showing user info in articles

Use the before_save method to change email to lowercase before saving to the database

Text follow up to the previous video

Add secure passwords to users for authentication system

Text directions and code for intro to authentication with adding secure passwords to users

Add new user signup form

Text directions and code for new user signup

Create new users based on information submitted from new user creation form and clean up layout

Text follow-up to the previous video lecture on creating new users

Add ability to edit existing users

Text reference for editing existing users

Add ability to display users profile with a gravatar image

Text directions and code for showing user profiles with gravatar image

Add a users listing page

Text directions for adding a users index page

Perform some basic layout cleanup actions

Text reference for updates made in the previous video

Add pagination to views to add limits to listings displayed per page

Text directions for adding pagination to the application views

Roll out authentication system with login form for users

Text directions and code for adding a login form for users

Simulate logged in and logged out state for users

Text directions and code for creating and destroying user sessions

Create methods to use throughout the app for authentication system

Text references and code for creating authentication helper methods

Add auth methods to controller and use as helper methods in views as well

Text references to changes made in the last video

Restrict user actions from the browser

Text references for restricting user actions from the browser

Update navigation partial to include restrictions and a users profile dropdown

Text references based on updates made in the previous video

Restrict certain actions at the controller level

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Restrict user actions at controller level

Text directions and code for restricting actions at controller level

Add ability for users to delete their own accounts

Text references for previous video

Introduction to admin users and permissions

Text references for previous video

Add admin user functionality to the application

Text references for adding admin user access throughout the application

Assignment to alter the color of flash messages depending on message type

Text solution to assignment

Wrap up section 6

Introduction to section 7 and what is covered

Create category model and build unit tests

Text directions and code for creating category model and unit tests

Add validations to the category model using unit tests

Text references for code used in the prior video

Create categories controller and tests

Text references for categories controller and tests

Modify functional test and create category

Text directions and code for creating categories with integration tests

Add an integration test to test the whole business process of creating a category

Text follow-up to the previous video

Build integration test to check for invalid category creation

Text references for creating invalid category integration test

Build integration test and listing category feature

Text references for building listing categories feature with integration test

Admin user requirement for category feature and test

Text references for admin user requirement and test

Update navigation to account for categories

Text references for updating navigation

Introduction to many-to-many associations and association between articles and categories

Implementation of many-to-many association between articles and categories

Text references for code updates made in previous video

Category association at article creation

Text references for adding association with categories when articles are created

Update views to incorporate categories

Text direction and code for updating views to account for categories

Complete index and show views for categories

Text follow-up to the previous video

Add ability to edit existing categories

Text references for editing existing categories

Deploy Alpha blog to Heroku, homework assignments and wrap up section 7

Text reference for wrapping up section 7 and Alpha blog

Preview video for the MessageMe chat app built in this section

Important notes to consider before starting this section

Start the new rails application

Set up git and github repositories for the app

Setup a couple of views for our application

Install a front-end framework to rapidly prototype the application layout

Use semantic ui to add a clean navigation menu for the app

Create a navigation partial to extract away code and add some javascript to enable dropdown functionality for the menu

Add a favicon to display next to title

Build the chatroom

Complete design of the chatroom

Build login page for users

Upon completion of the front-end, let's explore the back-end structure of the app

Add the users resource for the application

Add messages resource to the application, messages will belong to users

Remove hardcoded messages and replace with actual ones from db

Learn a shortcut to iterating code blocks by using partials

Update form with ERB code and add authentication methods

Add ability to create and destroy sessions, along with routes and restricting views

Add flash message display capacity and styling

Add restrictions to specific views from the controllers

Add ability to enter messages directly from the UI by logged in users

Explore how websocket and actioncable work to make real-time possible

Take a deeper look at how ActionCable can be used and the components that go into it

Create the channel and add a route for it

Use ActionCable to broadcast new messages

Use existing partial to display newly created messages real-time

Add scroll functionality to chat window

Automate clicking of create button using the enter key and a custom scope

Final project for this section

Notes about upcoming sections

Preview and details of the Finance (Stock) Tracker Social Media App built in this section, section 9

Requirements for finance tracker app and restrictions

First assignment for finance tracker app

Application status at the completion of assignment 1

Second assignment for finance tracker app

Application status at the end of assignment 2

Initiate building the authentication system for the app using the devise gem

Use the devise gem to create users for the application

Test the newly created authentication system

Assignment and helpful resources to add Bootstrap 4 to the application for front-end styling

Implementation walkthrough of adding Bootstrap 4 for the application

Add gem and automate styling of views

Update layout of the application

Cleanup layout with a navigation partial and style messages

Setup mechanism for getting stock information using API key

Create stock model and stocks table with attributes

Build a class method to lookup stock information using the API key

A look at how Rails handles sensitive info

Use secure credentials for API key

Explore and build the front-end structure for looking up stock information

Creating a working form to lookup stock prices using ticker symbols

Setup functionality to display retrieved stock price info in the browser

Create stock objects and utilize partials to display info in favorable format in the browser

Dealing with entries of invalid and empty ticker symbols

Learn to work with Ajax for form submission

Setup JS response to handle form submission made via Ajax

Deal with invalid form submission responses with JavaScript

Intro to the many-to-many association between users and stocks

Setup user_stocks table and resource to deal with many-to-many association between users and stocks

Add stocks listing view for tracked stocks

Cleanup layout of application - navigation, logout etc.

Setup stock tracking functionality from the browser

Implement stock tracking restrictions based on requirements

Add functionality to stop tracking stocks which were previously being tracked

Add first and last name fields to users

Update app functionality to accept first and last names for users

Complete new user registration assignment following edit user example

Intro to self-referential associations

Solution walkthrough for friends list view

Create a form which will be used to search for friends/users

Respond with JS to submission of the form

Build search methods step-by-step to search for users/friends using the app

Display user/friend search results

Implement functionality to remove friends who are currently tracked

Implement add friend functionality from the browser

Build profile page for users/friends with tracking options for both users and stocks

Assignment upon completion of finance tracker

Production email with Sendgrid, Custom payment and registrations with Devise and Stripe API, file hosting with Amazon Web Services S3 bucket

Start new rails photo app and complete setup steps

Text directions for setup of new rails photo app

Setup devise and views

Text directions and code for setting up authentication system

Setup email in production

Text directions and code for sending email in production

Add updates to the layout of the app and test email functionality in production

Text directions and code for updating layout and testing email in production

Create the homepage for the app

Text directions and code for building homepage

Using stripe for payment management

Text directions, references and code for working with stripe

Creating a payment model to handle payments made by users

Text directions and code for payment model

Update signup form to integrate credit card payment fields

Text directions for updating form for credit card fields

Javascript for handling credit card info and submission

Text directions and code for handling javascript events

Change default gem functionality and customize for app

Text directions and code for extending default functionality for devise registrations controller

Remove turbolinks to fix a bug with payments

Text directions for fixing payment bug

Implementing image upload and storage

Text directions and code for implementing image upload functionality

Restrict size of images

Text directions and code for image size validations/restrictions

Amazon Web Services - S3 bucket and more

Text directions and code for working with Amazon Web Services S3 bucket for storage

Complete and Deploy!

Text directions and code for completing production image upload and deploy