Ruby on Rails 5 - Become a Professional Developer

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Section 2: Mac Environment Customization

The Application We're Going to Build - 09:15 [Play]

Section Introduction - 01:12

Introduction to the Command Line Interface in Mac and Linux - 09:51

Installing the X-Code Command Line Tools for Mac - 01:55

Installing Git for Source Code Version Control - 03:14

How to install Homebrew on a Mac - 03:48

Installing GPG Security Systems on a Mac - 01:43

Guide to RVM for Ruby Management - 09:09

Configuring RubyGems and Installing Rails - 07:19

Installing the Postgres Database on a Mac - 04:40

Installing and Working with the Sublime Text Editor - 17:15

Deep Dive into the Command Line - Part 1 of 2 - 13:51

Deep Dive into the Command Line - Part 2 of 2 - 11:49

PC Environment Setup: Installing Virtual Box - 03:07 [Play]

Guide to Installing Ubuntu Linux in VirtualBox - 09:35

How to Reboot a Linux Virtual Machine from Terminal - 01:37

Installing Desktop Applications and Ubuntu Navigation Tips and Tricks - 08:41

How to Sign Up for a GitHub Account - 03:10

How to install Git on Linux and Connect to GitHub via SSH - 19:44

How to Securely Install Node and NPM on Linux via NVM - 09:16

Installing the Heroku CLI and the Full Deployment Lifecycle - 14:04

How to install and Work with Sublime Text in Linux - 08:04

PC Setup: Guide for Ruby on Rails and Postgres on Linux - Part 1 of 2 - 09:54

PC Setup: Guide for Ruby on Rails and Postgres on Linux - Part 2 of 2 - 14:51

Fixing the Role Does Not Exist Error - 05:27

Section Introduction - 00:57 [Play]

Signing Up for a Project Management Account - 02:54

Managing the Project Management Dashboard - 07:44

Importing Project Management Tasks into Pivotal Tracker - 01:15

Creating a Rails Application - 10:40

Generating a Blog for the Portfolio Application Using Rails Scaffolds - 11:11

Analyzing the Rails Process: Index and Show Actions - 11:11

Analyzing the Rails Process: New, Create, Update, Edit, and Destroy Actions - 11:56

Analyzing the Rails Process: Routing with Resources - 11:56

Rails File System Overview - 13:07

Updating the Project Management Dashboard - 01:26

Deep Dive: Analyzing the Application Generator - Part 1 of 2 - 11:31

Deep Dive: Analyzing the Application Generator - Part 2 of 2 - 17:15

Section Introduction - 02:19 [Play]

How to Sign Up for a Github Account - 03:14

Generating SSH Keys to Securely Communicate with Github - 04:22

Guide to GitHub - 11:49

How to Update a .gitignore File to Securely Store Secret Credentials - 10:49

Guide to the Markdown Syntax - 09:39

Updating the Git Sprint in the Project Management Dashboard - 00:33

Deep Dive: Analyzing Version Control and Git - Part 1 of 2 - 12:42

Deep Dive: Analyzing Version Control and Git - Part 2 of 2 - 12:42

Section Introduction - 00:34 [Play]

Guide to the Rails Controller Generator to Build Pages Part 1 of 2 - 15:31

Guide to the Rails Controller Generator to Build Pages Part 2 of 2 - 05:11

Guide to the Rails Model Generator to Build out Data Specific Features - 16:51

Guide to the Rails Model Generator for Building Out the Portfolio Feature - 10:18

Deep Dive: Analyze Rails Generators and How to Customize a Generator - 1 of 2 - 14:37

Deep Dive: Analyze Rails Generators and How to Customize a Generator - 2 of 2 - 11:05

Course Intro - 06:20 [Play]

Section Introduction - 01:32 [Play]

Building out a Seeds File for Generating Dynamic Sample Data - 17:21

Implement an Index Action from Scratch in Rails - 11:37

Build the New and Create Functionality from Scratch in Rails - 19:31

Implement the Ability to Edit Database Records from Scratch in Rails - 12:38

How to Use the Link To Method in Rails for Creating Dynamic Links - 13:20

How to Implement the Show Action from Scratch in Rails - 11:41

Building the Ability to Delete Items in Rails - 15:27

How to Implement Custom Routes for Pages in Rails - 08:36

How to Override the Rails Resources Routes for the Show Action - 07:05

How to Implement Permalinks in a Rails Application - Part 1 of 2 - 17:27

How to Implement Permalinks in a Rails Application - Part 2 of 2 - 04:36

How to Use Enums in Rails to Manage Data Stages - 12:40

How to Implement a Custom Action in Rails via a Button Click - Part 1 of 2 - 12:03

How to Implement a Custom Action in Rails via a Button Click - Part 2 of 2 - 09:36

Updating the Project Management Dashboard and Performing a Pull Request - 05:02

Deep Dive: Rails Routing and Data Flow - Part 1 of 3 - 12:47

Deep Dive: Rails Routing and Data Flow - Part 2 of 3 - 13:28

Deep Dive: Rails Routing and Data Flow - Part 3 of 3 - 16:20

Section Introduction - 01:08 [Play]

Implementing Data Validations in Rails 5 - 11:39

Guide to Data Relationships in Rails - 15:48

How to Implement Custom Scopes in Rails 5 - 15:44

How to Set Default Values in Rails 5 - 12:41

How to Use Concerns in Rails 5 - 13:17

Building an Additional Parent/Child Relationship in Rails 5 - 10:27

Rails 5 Complex Forms: Configuring Nested Attributes in the Model - 17:06

Rails 5 Complex Forms: Configuring Nested Attributes in the Form - 16:37

Deep Dive: Working with SQL and ActiveRecord in Rails 5 - Part 1 of 3 - 15:55

Deep Dive: Working with SQL and ActiveRecord in Rails 5 - Part 2 of 3 - 14:09

Deep Dive: Working with SQL and ActiveRecord in Rails 5 - Part 3 of 3 - 14:46

Section Introduction - 00:38 [Play]

How to Install Devise in Rails 5 - 07:47

Using Devise to Implement Registrations and Login Functionality - 18:10

Building Custom Routes for Authentication Pages with Devise in Rails 5 - 03:28

Enable Users to Logout and Dynamically Render View Content in Rails 5 - 06:31

How to Add Custom Attributes to a Devise Based Authentication System - 14:45

How to Use Controller Concerns in Rails 5 for Devise Custom Attributes - 14:51

Integrate Virtual Attributes to Extract First and Last Name Data from a User - 19:08

Deep Dive: Using BCrypt to Implement Encryption in Ruby - 17:23

Section Introduction - 00:57 [Play]

Rails Data Flow Review and Working with Params - 14:04

Using Rails Sessions to Share Data Between Pages - 18:53

Refactoring the Session Tracker into a Controller Concern - 07:17

Working with Strong Params in a Rails 5 Controller - 13:13

Deep Dive: Building a Guest User Feature in Rails - Part 1 of 2 - 13:39

Deep Dive: Building a Guest User Feature in Rails - Part 2 of 2 - 17:56

Section Introduction - 02:36 [Play]

How to Customize the Rails Master Layout File - Part 1 of 2 - 15:16

How to Customize the Rails Master Layout File - Part 2 of 2 - 08:44

Guide to Using Multiple Layout Files in Rails 5 - 13:57

Introduction to Partials in Rails 5 - 08:13

How to Send Data to Partials to Generate Custom Behavior in Rails 5 - 15:27

Guide to View Helpers in Rails 5 - 16:59

How to Use the Rails Content Tag Helper to Auto Generate HTML Code - 14:48

Introduction to Rendering Collections via Partials in Rails 5 - 09:29

Guide to Manually Configuring Partials to Work with Collections in Rails - 07:02

Guide to Helpful ActionView Helper Methods in Rails 5 - 14:46

Deep Dive: Tips and Tricks to Working with ActionView in Rails 5 - Part 1 of 2 - 12:12

Deep Dive: Tips and Tricks to Working with ActionView in Rails 5 - Part 2 of 2 - 15:06

Section Introduction - 01:14 [Play]

How to Integrate a Position Attribute and Custom Scope in Rails - 12:05

Installing the jQuery UI and html5sortable JavaScript Libraries in Rails 5 - 08:42

Initial Implementation of Drag and Drop Interface in Rails 5 - 13:01

Implementing Drag and Drop Functionality into a Ruby on Rails 5 App Part 1 of 2 - 18:22

Implementing Drag and Drop Functionality into a Ruby on Rails 5 App Part 2 of 2 - 11:19

Implementing Authorization Rules for Drag and Drop Feature with Petergate - 06:56

Deep Dive: jQuery CoffeeScript in Rails - 19:08

Section Introduction - 00:34 [Play]

Introduction to Using Images and the Rails Asset Pipeline - 11:59

How to Add a Full Size Image Background in Rails with Bootstrap 4 - 09:10

How to Set a Full Size Video Background in Rails with Bootstrap 4 - 08:07

Deep Dive: Installing and Configuring Carrierwave for Image Uploads in Rails 5 - 19:59

Deep Dive: Integrating Connection to AWS S3 for File Hosting with Carrierwave - 14:11

Implementing File Upload Button Styles and Refactoring Placeholder - Part 1 of 2 - 06:17

Implementing File Upload Button Styles and Refactoring Placeholder - Part 2 of 2 - 19:06

Section Introduction - 01:29 [Play]

Difference Between form_form and form_tag in Rails - Part 1 of 2 - 15:26

Difference Between form_form and form_tag in Rails - Part 2 of 2 - 15:52

How to Integrate Cocoon in Rails 5 for jQuery Nested Forms - 19:36

Guide to Integrating Alerts that Automatically Fade Away in Rails 5 - 15:25

Refactoring Alert Notifications to Use a Shared View Helper in Rails - 12:57

Deep Dive: How to Build an HTML Form from Scratch the Works with Rails - 17:27

Section Introduction - 02:47 [Play]

Integrating the Twitter Gem to Pull in Tweets in Rails 5 - 19:55

How to Render Tweets on a Rails View Page - 07:05

Building a Parser View Helper Method to Make Twitter Links Clickable in Rails - 14:37

Customizing the Styles for the Tech News Page with Bootstrap 4 - 06:52

Section Introduction - 01:06 [Play]

Running the Comment Generator and Installing the NoSQL Redis Database in Rails 5 - 17:49

Building the Comment Form and Required Controller Actions - Part 1 of 2 - 13:43

Building the Comment Form and Required Controller Actions - Part 2 of 2 - 07:49

Refactoring the Comment Form into a Partial and Implementing Data Validations - 05:23

Building the jQuery Functions for Processing Comments - Part 1 of 2 - 19:26

Building the jQuery Functions for Processing Comments - Part 2 of 2 - 04:38

How to Create a Broadcast with ActionCable in Rails 5 - 14:11

Guide to Implementing Live Data Updates in a Rails 5 Application - Part 1 of 2 - 14:41

Guide to Implementing Live Data Updates in a Rails 5 Application - Part 2 of 2 - 05:50

Styling the Comment Section and Implementing Gravatar Based Thumbnails in Rails - 15:42

Section Introduction - 00:29 [Play]

Planning Final Project Updates and Assignment - 11:17

Building a Scope to Show the Most Recent Blog Posts and Hiding Draft Posts - 09:22

Hiding the Show Page for Blogs in Draft Mode in Rails 5 - 04:07

How to Add a Drop Down Form Element in Rails 5 for Parent/Child Relationships - 08:50

Using the Controller Generator to Build the Topic Features - Part 1 of 2 - 09:44

Using the Controller Generator to Build the Topic Features - Part 2 of 2 - 11:13

How to Build a Widget for the Blog to Render Topics in Rails 5 - 16:37

How to Implement Radio Buttons in a Rails Form to Update Enum Values - 08:50

Guide to Integrating Markdown and Syntax Highlighting in a Rails 5 Application - 12:53

Integrating Breadcrumbs and Icons for the Blog Show Pages - 11:53

Building a Partial for Managing Admin Actions for Blog Posts - 15:26

How to Implement a Responsive Navigation Bar with Bootstrap 4 - 11:24

Updating the Source/Session Tracking System for the New Layouts - 13:32

How to Integrate a Favicon in Rails 5 - 08:13

Implementing Responsive Image Components for the Portfolio Layout - 05:56

Adding Card Styles to the About and Contact Pages - 08:50

How to Implement Collapsable Content Components in a Rails 5 Application - 09:22

How to Integrate Bootstrap Progress Bars in a Rails Application - 13:24

How to Integrate Custom Fonts in a Rails 5 Application - 16:51

Updating the Seeds File in Rails - 06:52

Signing Up for and Creating a New Heroku Application - 03:38 [Play]

How to Deploy a Rails 5 Application to Heroku - 12:51

Working with the Rails Console on Heroku - 11:12

Installing Redis on Heroku for ActionCable Commenting Feature - 04:29

Configuring Action Cable to Work on Heroku - 10:49

How to Implement the Typed.js Library into a Rails 5 Application - 11:46 [Play]

How to Install and Configure Webpack, Yarn, and jQuery into a Rails 5.1+ App - 19:27

How to Work with Encrypted Credentials in Rails 5.2+ - 24:00

Section Introduction - 01:10 [Play]

How to Utilize Puts Debugging in Rails - 07:41

Guide to Byebug in Rails 5 - 09:04

Guide to Debugging with Pry in Rails 5 - 18:54

Proper Way to Implement Error Management in a Rails Application - Part 1 of 2 - 14:54

Proper Way to Implement Error Management in a Rails Application - Part 2 of 2 - 05:54

Section Introduction - 00:53 [Play]

How to Install Bootstrap 4 into a Rails 5 Application - Part 1 of 2 - 10:09

How to Install Bootstrap 4 into a Rails 5 Application - Part 2 of 2 - 11:44

Strategy for Building a Custom RubyGem - 10:59

How to Build a RubyGem from Scratch - Part 1 of 2 - 06:11

How to Build a RubyGem from Scratch - Part 2 of 2 - 15:18

Section Introduction - 01:42 [Play]

Introduction to Authorization and How to Install the Petergate Gem - 07:54

How to Add Roles to the User Model in Rails 5 - 05:14

Guide to Implementing Petergate in Rails 5 Application - Part 1 of 2 - 15:18

Guide to Implementing Petergate in Rails 5 Application - Part 2 of 2 - 11:36

Section Introduction - 00:34 [Play]

Portfolio Design Planning for Layout Specific Styles - 08:38

Implementing the Initial Homepage Design in Rails 5 with Bootstrap 4 - 08:35

Building a Navigation Partial for the Master Application Layout with Bootstrap - 10:46

Implement a Footer Along with Adding Method Arguments to a Rails View Helper - 14:18

How to Embed a Google Map into a Rails Application - 06:14

Guide to Updating the Styles for the Devise Edit Account Page in Rails - 16:20

How to Override Default Bootstrap Styles for Text Alignment in the Card Class - 06:02

Implementing Styles for the Devise Registration Page with Bootstrap 4 - 14:29

How to Design the Login and Password Pages with Bootstrap 4 Form Styles - 14:47

How to Set Default Values for View Helper Method Arguments in Rails 5 - 03:50

Integrating a Different Design for a Separate Blog Layout in Rails 5 - 03:50

How to Use Bootstrap 4 to Add a Custom Nav Bar to a Blog Layout in Rails - 07:06

Customizing the Design for the Blog Index Page with Bootstrap 4 - 19:06

Guide to Adding Styles to the Blog Show and Form Pages with Bootstrap 4 - 11:52

Implementing Partials, Pagination, and Font Awesome Icons - Part 1 of 2 - 22:39

Implementing Partials, Pagination, and Font Awesome Icons - Part 2 of 2 - 22:39

Initial Design for the Portfolio Index Page with Bootstrap 4 - 17:16

Integrating the Portfolio Animated Navigation Slider, Footer, and Index - 13:51

Using the Bootstrap 4 Grid Layout to Style the Portfolio Show Page in Rails - 05:58

Implementing Bootstrap 4 Forms for the Portfolio Form Pages - 12:51

How to Build a View Helper to Dynamically Generate a Nav Bar - Part 1 of 2 - 19:48

How to Build a View Helper to Dynamically Generate a Nav Bar - Part 2 of 2 - 19:29

Deep Dive: Rails Asset Pipeline Part 1 of 2 - 01:14

Deep Dive: Rails Asset Pipeline Part 2 of 2 - 19:12

Course Description

Requirements

  • You should have basic computer skills

Description

Latest course update: June 2018 - Added a comprehensive tutorial on how to work with the Rails 5.2 encrypted credentials to securely manage configuration variables such as API and application secret keys.

Through the years I've constantly heard the same question from students: "I can follow a tutorial, but I don't feel confident enough to build apps/features from scratch". This course is my answer to that question. I'm not satisfied in simply teaching you how to build an application, my goal is to teach you to understand how to build professional web applications, not to simply follow a tutorial. This is the most comprehensive course I've ever put together and combines my 14 years of development experience.

I took a completely different approach in building this course. This course is unique for a number of reasons:

  • Curriculum - After completing the initial course outline I sent it out to a group of CTOs and Senior Rails developers from around the world. I asked them to go through the list of features and add the full set of skills they look for when hiring Rails devs. The course outline literally doubled based on their input. So the features that we're going to build throughout this course aren't simply my idea of what it takes to build progressional grade Rails applications, it's the combined knowledge over over a dozen premier developers from a wide variety of industries. One of the hiring managers who reviewed the outline responded to the outline and said, "If you send me developers who build this full set of features, I'll hire them on the spot!".
  • Deep Dives - Going through tutorials is great. However, many times courses that simply walk through the build out of a project skip over important concepts. For this reasons I have created a Deep Dive at the end of each section of this course. These guides select the most challenging topics of each section and give a detailed walk through of the concept so that you can completely understand how to work with the key features of the Rails framework.
  • Full Stack - Many courses promise to teach you how to become a full stack developer, but most of them simply gloss over the concepts that you need in order to build truly professional applications. This course was built to walk you through a real world approach to full stack coding. This includes: backend development with Ruby on Rails, front end coding with HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery, along with advanced ways to use SQL for database management.
  • Immersive - This is not a light and easy course that you can go through in a weekend. This course was designed specifically for coding bootcamp students that have the goal of becoming professional developers. This means that there is over 35 hours of video lessons and you will build a professional grade Rails application by the time you have completed the course.


So with all that being said, let's talk about everything that we're going to build throughout the guides. We're going to build a feature rich portfolio application that you can actually use for your own portfolio (I'm even using it for my own portfolio). Let's walk through the full feature set of what the application will include:

  • Building out a professional Rails environment (if you're on a PC I even built a free C9 dashboard that you can use for this course).
  • We'll utilize Pivotal tracker to follow SCRUM project management best practices throughout the build of this application, just like you'll do in a professional dev shop.
  • Examine how to work with Rails generators, including how to customize the generators so that you can have your very own scaffolds.
  • Work with data flow in Rails. One of my strongest beliefs is that if you can understand how data flow works in Rails, you can build anything! With that in mind we'll take a step by step approach for understanding how data comes into a Rails app and how you can build features that utilize the process.
  • Manage a database. You'll learn advanced SQL techniques for working with data in a Rails application, including how to manage data relationships between tables along with what it takes to implement efficient queries.
  • Best practices. Writing clean code is one of the key requirements of professional Rails developers, throughout the course we'll walk through what professional grade code looks like and the common patterns you'll need to know in order to build well written applications.
  • JavaScript and jQuery components. One of the hallmarks of a modern Rails application is the proper integration of JavaScript features. Throughout the course we'll walk through advanced JavaScript features such as how to integrate drag and drop functionality for users and how to build dynamic forms that change based on user input, all without a page refresh!
  • Streaming Live Data/Page Updates with ActionCable. The top new feature in Rails 5 was definitely Action Cable, which allows for Rails to utilize web sockets and have live page updates. In this course we'll build a real time commenting feature for our portfolio that will showcase your JavaScript skills to everyone who visits your new site.
  • API Integration. Because most modern applications need to communicate with the outside world, in this course we'll build an integration with the Twitter API to pull in real time tweets into our portfolio application.
  • RubyGem Libraries. In addition to teaching you about how to use RubyGems in a Rails application, I also show you how to create your very own RubyGem from scratch and walk through how to use it in your application.
  • In addition to all of these features, we'll also examine: advanced forms, how to integrate professional styles by leveraging Bootstrap 4, building a connection to AWS for file uploads, and how to deploy our application to the web.

In addition to the lectures, I also include the source code for each guide so that you can always have access to the full codebase for the application.

I look forward to going through this immersive program with you and good luck with the coding!

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for someone who wants to learn how to build professional grade Ruby on Rails applications.
  • This course is for developers that want to learn advanced features specific to the Ruby on Rails version 5 framework, such as ActionCable

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