Ruby on Rails Demos-n-Deets

Project Setup

• Development Environment Setting Up a Computer for Rails-based Web Development
• Windows Subsystem for Linux Setting Up WSL and the Windows Terminal
• Running Apps Initializing and Executing the Demo Apps
• New Projects Generating and Configuring a New Rails Web App

Webpage Basics

• Webpages Adding a Page to the App
• Tables Adding a Table to a Page
• Titles Customizing the Title Metadata Shown in Browser Tabs
• Images Adding an Image to a Page
• Root Routes Setting the Root Page of the App
• Internal Links Hyperlinking to a Page within the App
• External Links Hyperlinking to an External Website

Model Basics

• Model Classes Creating a Model Class and Seeding the Database
• Index Pages Displaying Multiple Model Objects
• Show Pages Displaying Individual Model Objects
• Validation Helpers Validate Data for Model Attributes

Forms and Actions for Models

• New/Create Forms Creating and Saving New Model Objects with Forms
• Edit/Update Forms Updating Model Objects with Forms
• Destroy Actions Deleting Model Records
• Form Partials Refactoring New and Edit Forms Into a Single Form

Model Associations

• One-to-Many Associations Creating a One-to-Many Association between Model Classes
• Nested-Resource Pages Creating Pages and UI Features for CRUDing Model Classes with a One-to-Many Association
• Many-to-Many Associations Creating a Many-to-Many Association between Model Classes
• Association-Link Checkboxes Creating Association Links between Model Objects with Checkboxes

Authentication

• Authentication Adding User Authentication with Devise
• Resource Ownership Restricting Write-Access to Owned Resources

Testing

• Controller Tests Creating an Automated Test for a Webpage
• Model Tests Creating Test Fixtures and Automated Model Tests

Prerequisite Technologies

• Unix How to Use the Unix Shell Command-Line
• Ruby Helpful Resources for Learning the Ruby Programming Language
• HTML Some Basic HTML Elements Used in the Demos

Web Development with Rails

• MVC How Rails Applies the Model-View-Controller Pattern to Process Browser Requests
• ERB How Embedded Ruby Is Used to Render HTML
• Validation Helpers Further information on pre-defined helpers to validate data for model attributes
• Flash Notifications How Sessions and the Flash Are Used to Display Notification Messages
• Navbar Using Bootstrap to Implement a Navbar