Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
4 Hour(s) 15 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
John Elder
Rating
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Course Overview
How To Use An API To Get Crypto Currency Data With Ruby On Rails
Ruby on Rails can seem overwhelming at first, but it doesn’t have to be! In this course I’ll walk you through it step by step and you’ll be building your first web app in MINUTES. You’ll be amazed how quick and easy it is to create very professional looking websites, even if you have no programming or web design experience at all.
Watch over my shoulder as I build a cool Crypto Currency Portfolio app step by step right in front of you. You’ll follow along and build your own copy. By the time we’re finished, you’ll have a solid understanding of Ruby on Rails and how to use it to build awesome web apps.
This course is aimed at the absolute beginner, you don't need any coding experience at all!
The course contains 47 videos – and is just over 3 hours long. Watch the videos at your own pace, and post questions along the way if you get stuck. You don’t need any special knowledge or software to take this course, though any experience with HTML or CSS is a plus. You don’t even need to know the Ruby programming language. I’ll walk you through EVERYTHING.
Ruby on Rails is a great web development tool and learning it has never been this easy.
What We'll Build...
We'll build a cool Crypto Currency Portfolio app that let's you look up crypto quotes and price information and save it to a database.
Users can create an account and sign up to your website, log in, add crypto currencies and coins, check current prices and all kinds of other cool things.
We'll style the website using the popular Bootstrap CSS framework (I'll show you how to use it!)
If you're into crypto-currencies like bitcoin, ripple, ethereum, ada, xlm, or any others; this course will be a LOT of fun. But even if you aren't into crypto stuff, this course will still be a lot of fun and you'll learn a lot of core Ruby on Rails things.
Sign up today and I'll see you on the inside!
-John Elder
Course Content
- 6 section(s)
- 57 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Installing Ruby On Rails
- Section 2 Building A Basic Rails App
- Section 3 Crypto Currency Data API
- Section 4 Creating a User Management System
- Section 5 Building A Portfolio System
- Section 6 Professional Web Hosting For Rails Apps
What You’ll Learn
- Build Web Apps With Ruby On Rails
- Build Your Own Crypto Currency Website
- Setup and Use A Cloud Environment
- Understand Basic Terminal Commands
- Push Code To Github
- Host Web Apps On Heroku
- Understand the Bootstrap CSS Framework
- Use Databases with Ruby on Rails
- Connect To a 3rd Party API
- Understand Basic Ruby Loops
Reviews
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KKelly Burton
This was a good course. The instructions were clear and the instructor speaks well so was easy to understand. The pace was good and easy to follow along. However the course is really out of date. The course is using rails 4x, when 7x is the current version. The crypto currency site has changed a lot and requires an API key to make calls, and the rest service end points are different now. Those without a programming background might get stuck here, additionally the json responses are different than in the course so you have to figure out the parsing on your own. The Heroku section covers the free version which is no longer available, so you will have to pay for a basic level If you want to practice deploying your site. The basic cost $5 a month so it is reasonable. Some of the methods taught are not what you should do in the real world. Retrieving all records than filtering on user (should only pull the users records), making an api call to pull all records and then search for that you need (again some of the code should being using the call to get data on single currency instead of all of them). For me there was a lot of code places in the view layer that should have been put in the controller. WIth some polish this course would be a 5 star course. Bottom line, if you would like learn Ruby on Rails this is good starting point.
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KKevin Byrne
I ran into a number of issues relating to some of the out dated content in the course. Having said that, John is still open to assisting where possible and he has an excellent no fluff teaching style that I appreciate.
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BBoris F
Very nicely explained. The best thing is that he will show you where to access the documentation and how to use it, which is essential for the beginners.
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MMark Tanser
No update for new coinmarketcap api, so need to substitute for another
