Intermediate Ruby on Rails Notes

00-introduction.md

Intermediate Ruby on Rails

We build a Rails application together that let's us dig deeper into Rails.

• Syllabus
• The instructor, Matt Mongeau, can be found at @halogenandtoast or halogenandtoast

01-week-1.md

Week 1

The first part helps us start with a great foundation. It's about how to set up a Rails application correctly. Then in future lessons we move onto complex associations, unit testing and other advanced topics.

Requirements

• Ruby 1.9.3
• Rails 3.2.12

We build an application called Shouter that is a Twitter like app. Users make shouts.

Specific Gems

• gem 'strong_parameters', '0.2.0', https://github.com/rails/strong_parameters
• gem 'monban', '0.0.6', https://github.com/halogenandtoast/monban

Q&A

• How to install a specific version of Rails?

    $ gem install rails -v 3.2.12
  

• How to write a good commit message?

  • A Note About Git Commit Messages
  • 5 Useful Tips for a Better Commit Message
  • Linus Torvalds on Commit Messages

• How to use Strong Paramters?

  http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html#strong-parameters

• At 7:27 you open your browser and there is an app running that tells the time among other things. What is it called and where can I get it?

• How does database indexing work?

  • A Stack Overflow answer to the question
  • Database index on Wikipedia

• What are some other approaches to redirecting the user to a specific page after sign in?

  • Other approaches to redirect user to their dashboard on sign in
  • Redirect user after log in only if it's on root_path

Resources

• Fork a Repo
• div_for
• time_ago_in_words
• rails s -d