Introduction to the Course

Prerequisites

Basic Rails knowledge is a must for following this course.

Basic assumptions

Rails is an opinionated framework. In this case, being opinionated means Rails makes certain tasks easier if we’re willing to structure our program the way the Rails core team thinks they should be.

We’ll start with a basic “Hello World” Rails application and then move slowly towards a full-fledged product management web-based application.

Let’s build an app

Before we start talking about a web-based product management application, we need to have a Rails app to attach all that code to.

We’ll create a sample app for an e-commerce store where users can visit and buy multiple products and which contains a list of all available products. Our e-commerce application will look like the following:

See the application in action

Here’s the application we’ll build at the beginning of the course. Just run the application to see things in action.