Working with Ruby on Rails TTJ2653

Each participant will leave with a recognised certificate

• 1. An Overview Of Ruby On Rails

• What is Ruby on Rails?

• Downloading Rails

• A Rails Application

• Structure of a Rails Application

• Building the Controller

• Views

• A Quick Review

• Rails Conventions

• Embedded Ruby

• Extended Time Functions

• The render Method

• The link_to MethodOne Last Thought

Session 2: Fill in Forms

• Introduction

• Creating a Form

• Submitting a Form

• Other Form Elements - Checkboxes

• Radio Buttons

• Rails Helper Methods

• Loading the Form

• Submitting the Form

• Perspective

Session 3: Databases and Rails

• Review of MVC

• Entities and Relationships

• Databases and Models

• database.yml

• Adding the Model

• Migrations

• The Index Page

• The Ruby Console

• Listing the Rows of a Database Table

• Scaffolding

Session 4: Validation Techniques

• form_for

• Data Validation

• Required Fields

• Validating Numerical Fields

• Validating Uniqueness

• Validating Lengths

• Validating Formats

• Writing Your Own Validation Methods

• The errors Object

• Validation Summary

Session 5: Style

• Adding Style to Your Application

• The Actions and the Templates

• Displaying the New Templates

• Higher Level Templates

• Adding Style

• Cascading Style Sheets

• More Style

Session 6: Users

• Maintaining State

• Preparing an Application for Sessions

• Registering Users

• Registration

• The flash Hash

• Validation of the Form

• Logging In

• Logging Out

• Protected Pages

• Filters

Session 7: Putting it All Together

• The Business Application

• Database Terminology

• Linking Two Models

• Adding Tasks

• The Database Tables

• Displaying an Employee Task

• Deleting a Task

• Listing Both Employees and Tasks

• application_helpers.rb

• Editing a Record

• Summary

Session 8: Testing the Application

• Test::Unit

• Testing Your Own Classes

• Testing in Rails - Unit Testing

• Testing Models

• Fixtures

• Testing Controllers

• test_helper.rb

• rake

• Integration Testing