Description
Best-selling author and leading Rails developer Michael Hartl teaches Rails by guiding you through the development of three sample applications of increasing sophistication, focusing on the fundamental techniques in web development needed for virtually any kind of application. The updates to this edition include full compatibility with Rails 7 and numerous new exercises interspersed in each lesson for maximum reinforcement. This indispensable guide provides integrated tutorials not only for Rails, but also for the essential Ruby, HTML, CSS, and SQL skills you need when developing web applications. Hartl explains how each new technique solves a real-world problem, and then he demonstrates it with bite-sized code thats simple enough to understand while still being useful.About the Instructor
Michael Hartl is the creator of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, one of the leading introductions to web development, and is cofounder and principal author at Learn Enough. Previously, he was a physics instructor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a graduate of Harvard College, has a PhD in Physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Y Combinator entrepreneur program.
Skill Level
- Beginner to intermediate
- Install and set up your Rails development environment
- Utilize the optional easy start using pre-installed IDE in the cloud
- Build Rails applications from scratch
- Test and use test-driven development (TDD)
- Effectively use the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern
- Structure applications using REST architecture
- Build static pages and transform them into dynamic ones
- Implement registration and authentication systems, including validation and secure passwords
- Deploy your application
- Developers looking for a practical introduction for building dynamic, database-backed web applications with Rails
- No formal prerequisites, but some background in developer tools (command line, text editor) and web technologies (HTML) is helpful
- Some Ruby background is useful but not required
