Rails 3 Beginner to Builder 2011

This is part 1 of my Rails 3: Beginner to Builder series. https://www.schneems.com/beginner-to-builder-2011

If you’re looking to learn Rails 3.0.0 and you’ve got no experience, then you’re in the right place. This class taught at the University of Texas is an 8 week long series of one hour classes, taught by yours truly. We’re going to be doing course work out of the Agile Web Development with Rails version 4 book, so if you’d like to follow along at home, you’ll need to get a copy. Below is the video of the class presentation as well as a copy of the slides.

If you have technical questions and don’t have time to wait for class I highly encourage you to find chat room on IRC, or to ask a question on Stack Overflow. I also recommend attending a local Rails user groups such as Austin on Rails. Coding is a social sport, so the quicker you can join the community, the better. 

Assignment before starting this week: Chapters 1 & 2

Assignment before week 2: Chapters 3, 4 & 5

Video

Untitled from richard schneeman on Vimeo.

Presentation

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A word of warning: Different versions of rails can be drastically different, this is a course on rails 3.0. It does not cover Rails 2.X and will not cover any features introduced in 3.1 or later.

Week 1 Topics:

  -Rails

    - Intro to Rails

    - Rails Architecture

    - MVC (Model View Controller)

    - ORM (Object Relational Mapping)

    - RESTful (REpresentational STate)

  - Ruby

    - Strings

    - Symbols

    - Arrays

    - Hashes

  - Work Environment

    - Verion Control

    - Ruby Gems

    - Bundler

    - RVM

    - Tests