Ruby Programming & Ruby on Rails Course

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO RUBY

• What is Ruby
• What is it used for
• Installing Ruby?
• Ruby Basics – objects, regular expressions, arrays, hashes, Object Orientation

Session 2: RUBY LANGUAGE ELEMENTS

• Variables and constants
• Operators
• Assignments
• Integer, float and string formats
• Single and double quotes
• Here documents
• Labs

Session 3: CONTROL STRUCTURES

• Blocks and if statement
• Boolean and range operators
• Conditionals – if, unless, case
• Loops – while, for in, until
• break, next, retry and redo
• Labs

Session 4: CLASSES AND OBJECTS

• Objects, classes and methods
• Constructors and attributes
• Instance and class variables
• Local and global variables
• Class and object methods
• Including external files – load and require
• Labs

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 5: INPUT AND OUTPUT IN RUBY

• Opening and closing files
• Reading from and writing to files
• Labs

Session 6: ARRAYS AND HASHES IN RUBY

• Arrays and hashes
• Building an array
• The %w shortcut
• Nesting arrays
• Hash keys
• Iterators
• Labs

Session 7: OBJECT ORIENTATION

• Inheritance
• Base classes and subclasses
• What’s inherited
• Overriding
• Abstract classes
• Polymorphism
• Multiple Inheritances
• Class structure
• Visibility
• Labs

Session 8: CLASSES AND OBJECT SCOPING

• Public, private and protected visibility
• Singletons and defs
• Inheritance mixins
• Destructors and garbage collection
• Namespaces and modules
• Hooks
• Freezing objects
• Labs

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 9: OBJECT ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES

• Clusters of classes
• Programming and method standards
• Formal Methods
• Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• Views

Session 10: STRINGS AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

• Meta Characters
• Anchors, literals, character groups and counts
• Matching in Ruby
• Modifiers i, o, x and m
• Pattern matching variables
• Labs

Session 11: SPECIAL VARIABLES AND PSEUDO-VARIABLES

• ARGV and $0
• Special variables
• Environment variables
• Pseudo-variables
• Reserved words in Ruby
• Labs

Session 12: EXCEPTIONS

• Begin and end
• Raise and rescue
• Throw and catch

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 13: REST

• What is REST
• RESTful architecture
• A simple REST client

Session 14: INTRODUCTION TO RUBY ON RAILS

• Install Ruby on Rails on an operating system
• The Model-View-Controller approach
• Rails Conventions
• Rails project structure
• Using RubyGems with Rails

Session 15: ROUTING

• What is a Route
• Define routes that recognize incoming URLs
• Use named route methods to generate URLs based on the routing scheme
• Apply and understand the RESTful routing conventions
• Design apps to take advantage of the REST conventions in Rails

Session 16: MODELS

• What is a Model
• Using ActiveRecord
• Validations
• Associations
• Migrations

Course Contents – DAY 5

Session 17: CONTROLLERS

• What is a Controller
• Creating controllers
• Using ActionController
• Writing Actions
• Filters

Session 18: VIEWS

• What is a View
• Exploring ActionView
• Writing Views for actions
• Partials
• Forms

Session 19: CREATING A RAILS PROJECT

• Creating the project
• Project Directory structure
• Using the Rails web server
• Creating the initial controller
• Modify the initial index.html file
• Setting the Route
• Creating a resource
• Viewing routes with rake

Session 20: RAILS SCAFFOLDING

• What is Scaffolding
• Creating a new project
• Generating the Rail Scaffold
• Customising the application