Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
18 Hour(s) 51 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Jordan Hudgens
Rating
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Course Overview
Develop a real world Rails project using TDD/BDD, including a step by step guide to building professional applications.
Hi and welcome to the Professional Rails Code Along Course, where I will walk through how to build a real world Ruby on Rails project that I was hired by a client to develop. My name is Jordan Hudgens, and I'll be your instructor for the course. I've built many different Ruby on Rails applications throughout the past few years for companies such as Eventbrite and Quip and one of my passions is helping individuals learn how to code.
After completing this course you will be able to build a production Rails project from scratch. But there are a million courses that will help you do that. What makes this course different is that you'll learn how to build a Rails application like a professional developer. I took a completely different approach to creating this course. I don't edit any mistakes and I filmed the entire set of videos in real time so you can watch my exact process when I am tasked with building a real world application. I made this decision so that you can get a transparent view into what it takes to become a pro developer, and also so you can see how I work through challenges, all in real time.
One of the most critical requirements for a professional Rails developer is a strong knowledge of testing. With that in mind, every feature that we build in the course will be created with the test driven development process. Some of the key features you'll learn how to implement are:
- Using TDD and BDD with the RSpec and Capybara testing frameworks
- Working with the Twilio API to send SMS messages
- Integrating a permission structure for users
- Implementing an administrator dashboard
- Working with automated email components
- Creating an approval workflow from scratch
- Creating JavaScript Growl notifications
- And much more!
This course is not for the faint of heart. The ideal student for this project is someone who has already taken a basic Rails course and wants to take their skill to the professional level.
Each lesson comes paired with the source code implemented at that stage so that you can follow along and compare your code with the codebase for the application. And beyond that you can also use the source code to extend it and build your own production applications.
Please feel free to review the course curriculum and I look forward to going through the material with you on your development journey!
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 120 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Planning the Application We're Going to Build
- Section 2 Initial Application Build
- Section 3 Creating a User with Test Driven Development
- Section 4 Implementing the Ability to Post Overtime Requests
- Section 5 Integrate an HTML/CSS Design and Layout
- Section 6 Listing Posts via Test Driven Development
- Section 7 Installing FactoryGirl for Test Data
- Section 8 Implementing New CRUD Functionality into the Application
- Section 9 Building Advanced User Interface Elements
- Section 10 Installing and Customizing the Admin Dashboard
What You’ll Learn
- Build a professional grade Rails project
- Using Test Driven Development to develop the application
- Learn Rails best practices
- Integrate the ability to send SMS messages from an application
- Work with callbacks
- Learn how to create a full permission structure
- Using Capybara for automated, end to end testing
- Perform advanced debugging
- Implement Single Table Inheritance
- Create custom rake tasks
Reviews
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NNinetyninejellies
Amazing course. I really like Jordans way of teaching. Learned quite a lot in this course. I'm not a beginner to rails but I have never done TDD/BDD for any applications I've been apart off. This course is about 4 years old and is still very relevant. I'd ensure maybe you have the basics of rails down if you are trying to tackle it using Rails 6 and updated Gems. The testing gems are essentially the same. I've added a full list of obstacles and some links to get over them in the first lecture comment section hoping it might help people move along a little faster. Best 3 weeks i've spent doing a course in a long time. Great work Jordan. Love your Rails courses.
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CChris Duenas
I enjoy that this code along is featuring a real-world case scenario. I also am highly interested in learning the different libraries and gems such as devise and twilio. Not to mention the TDD and BDD that will be included in the project so that code will be easier to locate errors and progress in the development process
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LLuis Fernando García Acosta
First, I am very grateful with the instructor and I liked the way he explains and also I really admire the patience of coding and explaining at the same time and sometimes with small issues but everything worked out well. And the other part of the course, the implementation. The implementation was really good I really liked how the functionality it's built and how we can implement that knowledge in other projects, but what really caught my attention was those parts when the instructor did not have the anwser or the solution, and that is what happens in real life, sometimes we don't have a solution or we simply don't know and we have to look for solutions and that's part of a developer, to know where and how to implement a solution.
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GGabriel Ochoa
Professional Rails Code Along has been amazing. Jordan is very knowledgeable, and actually communicates with all of his students. He answers questions within a few hours, sometimes even minutes. The audio is clear, the videos show you everything he is doing. I can't emphasize enough about the course support, has seen the best support I have experienced in many online programming courses. I would recommend this course for anyone trying to break into software engineering, web development, or learning the rails framework.
