Learn Ruby and Rails: Build a blog from scratch step by step

About this course

Ruby  is a modern object oriented programming language, and Ruby on Rails is a popular and  powerful    frameworks  for building web applications. Rails was built using Ruby and makes it much easier to develop web applications with Ruby. Some notable applications have been built using Ruby on Rails: They incude Basecamp, Twitter, Shopify, Github, LivingSocial, Groupon, Hulu, Airbnb, Yellow Pages to just mention a few.. A google search will reveal much more..  This course is for the absolute beginner to Ruby programming language and Rails framework.I will guide you through setting up your development environment. Then we will cover some basics of the Ruby programming language.  We will also install git and touch on github which is used for version control.We will create a complete blog application from scratch using Rails and in the process build up your skills. Concepts we will cover while building our blog project include: Creating a new rails projectUpdating gems using bundlerIllustration of MVC architectureStarting rails serverConditional statementsLoopsCreating controllersCreating modelsAssociating modelscreating viewsGenerating modelsRunning migrationsCreating postsEditing postsReading postsDeleting postsAdding links to postsCreating commentsDeleting commentsCreating controller actionsSetting up routesCreate formsUsing helpersAdding resources and automatically generating routesImplementing basic security -By the end of this practical course you would have developed enough skills to be creative and exapnd this project or build similar type of projects.

Course objectives

• to equip students with the skills to develop web applications using Ruby on Rails
• to provide a practical understanding of version control with Git and GitHub
• to reinforce coding practices through a hands-on project