Course Length:

.5 Days

Course Description:

This presentation features the rudiments of a real world application designed to demonstrate the ease and speed of developing database-backed Web applications using Ruby on Rails.

Who Should Attend:

Anyone interested in learning the value of Rails should attend this briefing.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create an application using Ruby on Rails
• Hook up a database and Rails
• Use style sheets to beautify Rails Apps
• Present a consistent look and feel to your Web pages
• Link pages together
• Map database tables to Rails models
• Validate Model data
• Display flash messages and error messages

Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites for this presentation.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Speeding Along With Rails
  1. Introduction
  2. Getting Started
  3. MVC Architecture
  4. Generating Models and Controllers
  5. Launching the Application
  6. Embedded Ruby
  7. Exploring the Model
  8. Displaying Records
  9. controller.rhtml
  10. Providing a Form
  11. Model Validation
  12. Stylesheets
  13. Final Thoughts