rails.md

##Rails 3 Knowledge Requirements

Goals:
Provide Videos, documentation, URL, sample code
Know the basics of normal web applications
know the basics of accessing web APIs etc

Key concepts

Model

• Activerecord Basics Link
• Model Relationships Link
• Migrations Link
• Callbacks Link
• Query Interface Link
• Validations Link
• Model Scopes Link
• STI (single table inheritance) Video

Controller

• Routes
• RESTful Resource
• API Development using ActiveRecord::Serializer Link

View

• Layouts
• Partials
• Helpers
• ERB, (Haml, SLIM templating Languages)

Other Frontend Development

• SASS/SCSS Video | Boilerplate | Holistic View

• Asset Pipeline Video

• Twitter Bootstrap 2.3.2 (not 3) Link*

• Intermediate/Optional Knowledge:

  • Basic Coffescript Video
  • Bower and rails-assets Link
  • Twitter Bootstrap 3
  • Zurb Foundation
  • Bulma Link | Bulma-Rails

• React on Rails! [Link] (https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails)

  • This is propably the easiest way to get use react as front end for rails app
  • The altenative is to just replace asset pipline with WebPack which will be fully out of the box with Rails 5.1 [Link] (https://medium.com/@hpux/rails-5-1-loves-javascript-a1d84d5318b)

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Basic Ruby Command-line tools:

• homebrew (not ruby specific, very basic and required)
• learn to use rvm or rbenv (or both)
  • rbenv Github
  • RVM (old) Video
• Install rubygems of the specific version: gem install fog -v 1.8
• Bundler Video

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