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Build an E-learning Website with Ruby-on-Rails and PostgreSQL

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Build an E-learning Website with Ruby-on-Rails and PostgreSQL

In this project, we’ll build an e-learning course catalog website that includes search functionality. We'll develop the web application using the Ruby-on-Rails framework. We'll also use PostgreSQL as the database. In the end, we'll have a fully functional e-learning website built on the ROR.

Build an E-learning Website with Ruby-on-Rails and PostgreSQL

You will learn to:

Understand the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails

Explore the basics of the Model-view-controller (MVC) architecture

Create and use Rails migrations

Configure routes, models, views, and controllers

Write dynamic HTML with Bootstrap

Bind PostgreSQL with the Rails application

Skills

Web Frameworks

Ruby Gem's Management

Database

Web Development using RoR

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of Ruby

Basic understanding of Rails framework

Basic understanding of PostgreSQL

Basic understanding of MVC patterns

Technologies

Ruby

PostgreSQL

Ruby On Rails

Project Description

In this Ruby-on-Rails (ROR) project, we’ll develop an e-learning course catalog website. We’ll be asked to display the list of all the courses on the website. Each course will have the following:

  • A title
  • An image
  • An author name
  • A status indicating whether it is paid or free
  • A description
  • A “Visit Website” button.

The website will also allow users to search the available courses with a search bar.

The figure below shows a preview of the final layout of the website:

An interface of the project

We’ll build this project step-by-step. Initially, we’ll have to implement the course catalog. For that, the data needs to be fetched from seeds into the PostgreSQL database and then load it into active records.

Once the layout is designed, we’ll add search functionality to your web application. When a user searches a name of a course, our application will search the keyword from all the course names and render all the relevant courses.

Project Tasks

1

Create Course Listings

Task 0: Initial Setup

Task 1: Create the Course Model

Task 2: Load the Data

Task 3: Generate Controllers and Views

Task 4: Fetch All Courses

Task 5: Create Courses Views

Task 6: Add the Courses Page to Root

2

Create a Search Bar

Task 7: Add a Search Bar

Task 8: Add Routes for Search Results

Task 9: Add the Search Controller

Task 10: Render the Search Results

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