Professional Rails Code Along

This video walks through how to create the initial application, including setting up the database and running the app generator.

In this guide we'll push our project to GitHub to implement source version control for the application.

In order to follow Ruby on Rails best practices, in this guide we'll install and configure the RSpec and Capybara testing framework libraries.

In this video we'll create an end-to-end integration test using Capybara to build a homepage.

Learn how to use Devise to give users the ability to log in and logout of the application, including all of the necessary security mechanisms such as encrypting the password.

Walk through how to integrate the advanced Rails tool of Single Table Inheritance (STI) to extend the functionality of the User class and follow best practices.

Learn how to integrate unit tests to implement validations for the User model to ensure data integrity for the user creation process.

This video will walk through how to use the Ruby on Rails resource generator for building out the Post component.

Learn how to use BDD with RSpec and Capybara to build an index feature for posts.

Walk through the process for building a seeds file to fill the application with sample data.

This guide walks through how to use BDD to build out the ability to create posts and implement basic CRUD functionality.

Walk through the BDD process of Red, Green, Refactor and refactor the ability to create posts to follow Rails best practices.

Learn how to create a connection between users and posts so that they can be created and called.

Learn how to implement the Twitter Bootstrap HTML/CSS framework to give a set of foundational styles to the application.

Build out the initial application layout, including working with the master template file and incorporating basic class components from Bootstrap.

Learn how to build view helper methods to follow Rails best practices and encapsulate custom user interface behavior that can be shared across resources.

Utilize Capybara to build an end to end test that builds out the list of posts.

Learn how to work with partials in order to follow Rails best practices and clean up the view code.

Walk through how to create a custom method that generates the user's full name.

Learn how to install FactoryGirls to generate test data for the RSpec automated tests.

Learn how to refactor the current tests to use factories instead of manually creating database records. This helps to remove duplicate code and speeds up the test suite.

Build in the ability to edit posts via behavior driven development with RSpec.

Implement a button on the template for creating new overtime posts.

Integrate the ability to delete posts, including adding the delete functionality to the user interface.

Implement Bootstrap styles for customizing the look and feel of forms, including working with the grid layout and form style options.

Build out the ability to implement growl styled notifications in a Rails application.

Build the additional code for integrating growl notifications to include form validations.

Learn how to customize the sign in form view template to include Bootstrap form elements.

Learn how to remove the registration functionality from Devise to ensure that only admins have the ability to create users accounts.

Learn how to install the Administrate gem to implement an Admin dashboard where administrators can create new user accounts.

Learn how to customize the Administrate gem so that only the form elements needed are available.

Learn how to select the database items that are available for searching via the Administrate dashboard.

Customize the permission structure so that only admin users are able to access the admin dashboard.