Creating Long-Lived Web Apps with Ruby on Rails

Intermediate

170 Lessons

75h

Certificate of Completion

Learn how to create a sustainable Ruby on Rails web application.

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Explanations

This course includes

56 Playgrounds

22 Quizzes

107 Illustrations

This course includes

56 Playgrounds

22 Quizzes

107 Illustrations

Course Overview

Ruby on Rails is a server-side web development framework. Are you an experienced Rails developer but struggle with managing the complexity your Rails apps acquire over time? You don’t need gems or complicated design patterns; you just need to focus on consistency, sustainability, and the best parts of Rails. In this course, you’ll learn straightforward techniques to apply to each Rails part, from routes to views to controllers to Active Records. You’ll learn to put business logic in separate Ruby classes t...Show More

What You'll Learn

The ability to follow steps for creating a reliable and consistent database schema for Rails

Familiarity with managing code in each part of Rails: routes, controllers, views, Active Records, jobs, and more

Working knowledge of a pragmatic strategy that ensures quality without overtesting

Familiarity with techniques for managing business logic in a Rails app without complicated patterns or gems

An understanding of the core principles of sustainable web app development

Course Content

Prologue

Introduction to Course

Getting Started

Introduction to Sustainability Assumptions Opportunity and Carrying Costs

The Rails Application Architecture

Architecture of Our Rails Application and Its Boundaries Views and Models

Pros and Cons of the Rails Application Architecture Typographic Conventions Quiz: The Rails Application Architecture

Start Our App Off Right

Creating a Rails App Using the Environment for Runtime Configuration Configuring Local Development Environment with dotenv Automating Application Setup with the bin/setup Command Running the Application with the bin/run Command Putting Tests and Other Quality Checks in the bin/ci command Improving Production Logging with lograge Quiz: Start Our App Off Right

Business Logic

Business Logic Makes Our App Special and Complex Business Logic Is a Magnet for Complexity Bugs in Commonly-Used Classes Have Wide Effects Business Logic and Complexity in Critical Classes Example Design of a Feature Quiz: Business Logic

Routes and URLs

8 Lessons

HTML Templates

7 Lessons

Helpers

8 Lessons

CSS

7 Lessons

Minimize JavaScript

5 Lessons

Carefully Manage the JavaScript We Need

3 Lessons

Testing the View

9 Lessons

Models I

7 Lessons

The Database

10 Lessons

Business Logic Code is a Seam

5 Lessons

Models II

6 Lessons

End-to-End Testing

13 Lessons

Controllers

6 Lessons

Jobs

8 Lessons

Other Boundary Classes

6 Lessons

Authentication and Authorization beyond Rails

6 Lessons

API Endpoints

11 Lessons

Sustainable Process and Workflows

9 Lessons

Operations

9 Lessons

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Appendices

3 Lessons

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