EasySkillz Getting Started with Ruby on Rails Online Course

26 Lectures and over 8 hours of content! This course will provide all the background you need to help you engineer high quality sites in Ruby on Rails. We start with the basics of the Ruby programming language, specifically focusing on the features that are exploited in Rails to support productivity and quality. We then lead you progressively through the main features of the Rails Framework, the course has been built from the ground up using Rails 3.2, so fast tracks you straight into the current release version. We did not want to complicate the technology chapters with too much on process. However, process is important and so we include a chapter that shows you how to put example projects under version control and adopt continuous testing. We will show you how to use RSpec and Cucumber to drive your development by first specifying the behaviour that is required and then incrementally delivering until your tests show that you have satisfied those requirements. We will also show you how to use version control and deploy your increments into Heroku so that your customer may review them and introduce you to the IDE RubyMine as well as learning about Rails, you will also get a good grounding of standards based development of the client side using Html5, Css3 and JavaScript. And just as a bonus, there is some background material on object modelling to help you think more deeply about the Business model that is at the heart of your application. Whilst Rails as a Framework gives you many tools to enhance the productivity and fun of building Web Applications, significant added power comes from the Rails ecosystem and the Gems that members of the ecosystem contribute freely. We want to introduce you into that ecosystem, for it is these gemstones that enable us to build cathedrals. Finally, We should mention that Instructor teach this material at both Undergraduate and Masters level. So this is very much a living course. I will update the material as new versions of Rails come out. And we will respond to requests of the nature of why don't you cover this? by creating additional content where there is a demand (Unless we genuinely doubt the relevance or value of what has been requested!).