Advanced Ruby on Rails Training DVD

Introduction

• Introduction Demo
• Using the exercise files

1. Maintaining Ruby and Rails

• Updating Ruby Demo
• Updating Rails and Gems Demo
• Updating previous Rails projects Demo
• Freezing Rails to a version Demo
• Offline Ruby documentation Demo
• Offline Rails documentation Demo
• Installing Subversion and Edge Rails Demo

2. Working Directly with Ruby and Rails

• Ruby from the command line Demo
• Interactive Ruby (IRB) Demo
• Getting more out of IRB Demo
• Rails console script Demo
• Rails runner script

3. Intermediate Ruby

• Arrays
• Hashes
• Code blocks: Each
• Code blocks: Find
• Code blocks: Merge
• Code blocks: Collect
• Code blocks: Inject
• Code blocks: Sort
• Custom code blocks
• Classes
• Methods
• Modules
• Control flow
• Catching errors and raising exceptions

4. Describing Your Project

• Project description overview
• Blueprinting the presentation layer
• Blueprinting the database
• Previewing the finished blog
• Creating the project files

5. Databases and Migrations

• Why use migrations?
• Creating a database and granting privileges
• Creating a migration with a model
• Customizing a migration
• Generating a migration
• Writing the AlterPosts migration
• Migrating a join table
• Migrating a simple join to a rich join
• Accessing models within migrations
• Migrating from legacy databases

6. Configuration Options in Rails

• Loading in other files
• Logging
• Session configuration options
• Session storage options

7. Getting More from ActiveRecord Models

• Setting the table name
• Specifying the class name and foreign key
• Handling dependent related records
• Creating custom relationships
• Using has_many :through
• One-to-one relationships using has_one
• When does ActiveRecord save to the database?
• Examining the difference between length and size
• Adding a counter cache
• Save before making many-to-many joins

8. Creating the Post CRUD

• Generating controllers with actions
• Adding layouts and style sheets
• Creating the list of posts
• Creating the form for posts
• Adding authors to the Post form
• Saving author information with the post
• Adding category checkboxes to the form

9. Creating the Category CRUD

• Merging the List, Show, and New actions
• Merging the Edit action
• Giving the Category form two actions

10. Creating the User CRUD

• Creating a list of users
• Choosing between two forms
• Merging New and Edit into Manage
• Merging Create and Update into Manage
• Merging Destroy into Manage

11. Creating the Comment CRUD

• Creating the list of comments
• Moderating comments
• Filtering the comments being viewed
• Conditional links

12. Improving Access Control

• Login Action and View
• Protected and accessible attributes
• Using callbacks
• Improving security by salting passwords
• Storing unique salt strings
• Hashing old passwords using migrations
• Authorizing access with a Before filter

13. Creating the Public Site

• Creating the public list of posts
• Utilizing view helpers
• Writing custom helpers
• Using partials with collections
• Sharing partials
• Passing local variables to partials
• Displaying only approved comments
• Adding and testing the Comment form
• Adding the comment count as a link
• Eager loading with Include

14. Validations

• Basic validations
• Custom validations
• Validation callbacks

15. Creating the Category and Archive Views

• Creating a list of category links
• Viewing posts by category
• Creating a list of archive links
• Viewing posts by month

16. Routes

• Overview of Rails routing
• Understanding the initial routes
• Defining a route alias
• Setting default values
• Putting parameters in custom routes
• Filtering routes with requirements
• Named routes
• Viewing route definitions

17. Pagination

• Pagination overview
• Classic pagination
• Custom pagination
• Plug-in pagination
• The will_paginate plug-in

18. Final Steps

• Finishing the project
• Generating application documentation
• Reviewing application statistics

Conclusion

• Goodbye

Appendix A - Installing Ruby on Rails

• Installation overview
• Installing Ruby and RubyGems
• Installing Rails
• Installing MySQL
• Installing TextMate
• Installing a webserver