Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
6 Hour(s) 43 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Jordan Hudgens
Rating
Course Overview
This is a comprehensive Ruby on Rails development course created for individuals who want to build powerful web apps.
Update March 2016 - New lectures have been added for: upgrading to version 4.2 of the Rails framework, how to edit nested resources, and cleaning up notifications. I also added a guide for how to install the Ruby on Rails framework locally on Mac and PC.
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What does it take to become a full stack web developer? Well, you need to know: server side coding, database design, HTML, CSS, algorithm development, file manipulation, routing, API integration, and the list goes on and on. Trying to learn each of these topics individually can feel overwhelming and finding out how they are all connected cause most developers to quit before they even start.
It’s for these reasons why I wanted to create a unique course that will walk you step by step through every skill you will need to become a full stack web developer, and I do it by showing you how to build an actual production application. Starting completely from scratch I explain how to setup your environment, create the application, build in advanced features and finally deploy to the web!
Some of the key skills you will learn in the course are:
- Rails scaffold generators
- How to use git repositories
- Building custom file uploaders and downloaders
- Database modeling and query generation
- Creating and handling form data for input into the database
- Setting up secure user logins
- Building a search engine for the app
- HTML and CSS customization
- How to use the Rails console
- How to deploy the application to a live website
- How the Model - View - Controller (MVC) framework works in action
- Object oriented programming (OOP)
- And much more!
Each video in the course has a link where you can access the code that was created for that specific stage in the course, making it easy to follow along. After completing the course you will earn a certificate of completion for Comprehensive Ruby on Rails development and you will be ready to start building your own applications.
Course Content
- 6 section(s)
- 42 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction to the course
- Section 2 Application setup and source version control
- Section 3 Deploying to the web
- Section 4 Integrating design functionalities
- Section 5 Common Bug Fixes for Rails Applications
- Section 6 Course Update 6/17/16
What You’ll Learn
- By the end of this course you will be able to build production level applications, completely from scratch, using the Ruby on Rails development framework
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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JJOSE A MERCONCHINI
Mr. Hudgens is a top teacher. He not only explains in detail what he is doing, but he explains what rails itself is doing with the code and why it is requiring the way that it is. Always a pleasure taking one of his courses.
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JJonas del Angel
Great course, despite the fact I'm now attempting this on Rails 5 the instructions still work flawlessly. If you're using the cloud based system through Nitrous it's very smooth. For those brave Linux users out there who use something other than Ubuntu/Debian/Mint or Fedora the following website with the tar setup in the /opt folder: https://edoceo.com/howto/heroku helps tremendously if you're attempting to do this on your local system. I just finished the course and I have to say it was great. The lessons are completely doable even on the latest version of Rails despite the dates of the original recordings for each lecture. Looking forward to moving into Jordan's next course where I can learn the project planning / developer approach to application building.
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HHans Van Overbeek
Jordan is very good teacher. The course is a pleasant survey of Ruby on Rails. So much to learn and to rehearse. There is a minor downside. The course is aging rather quickly. I was working in Rails 5, where the course is in 4 and later on updating to 4.2. There are some differences. The bootstrap classes for Rails 5 are also different. Many times you have to translate the course. Having said that, at this point in time, it didn't hold me back from learning.
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DDavid Endry
Great for developing a database application very similar to the one in the tutorial but high level explanations which would allow you to figure out how to code new things really aren't provided.
