Ruby is the programming language we use on the backend. Goals After finishing this lesson you should be able to...
Git is our version control system. Goals Understand why we use git. Learn how to work with your local repository...
Rails is our web framework. Goals Be able to write a simple Rails application. Understand how Rails talks to the...
Understand why we test: Low defect rate without a QA department. Customer acceptance testing can concentrate on new features...
Understand at least the following CSS concepts: Classes Selecting elements for styling Basic styling (color, typography, spacing)
Learn to read and write Haml. Understand the different attributes syntaxes (curly braces vs. round parentheses) Exercises Convert MovieDB...
When your code does not behave as expected, you can use a debugger statement ("breakpoint") at any point in your...
Built-in matchers Get an overview of all the matchers that are built into RSpec. Play with some of...
Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous (it's in our library => Google Drive) CLI tricks every developer should...
Read the Rails Guide about Active Record migrations Understand why we never use models in migrations. Checkout the repository...
Understand the differences between git diff and git diff --staged (or git diff --cached) Understand the difference between git...
A common task in web applications is to add client-side JavaScript behavior to existing HTML elements.
What is a Cookie? Google it if you do not know. How are cookies transferred between your browser and...
Web security basics Einführung in die Web Security 🇩🇪 provides essentials for the topic of this card. Read following chapters:
Resources RubyGuides: Mastering Ruby Regular Expressions Using regular expressions in JavaScript Testing regular expressions visually Regular Expressions: Quantifier modes...
While working on a Rails application, your code base will grow a collection of different file types including: Ruby (business...
The asset pipeline is one of Rails' two mechanisms how stylesheets, javascripts and images from your /assets folder are processed...
We are using the BEM pattern ("Block, Element, Modifier") to structure our CSS in all new projects. We try to...
Understand how asynchronous JavaScript works: Read Henning's presentation about asynchronous Javascript (there's also a German video presentation...
Just like we use gems on the server, we use third party JavaScript libraries in the browser. These typically provide...
In a web application you often need to move data between the client (HTML, Javascript) and the server (Ruby, Rails...
Method lookup Understand all the terms in How Ruby method lookup works, in particular: include extend singleton class
Exercise 1: XML On the start page of your Movie DB, show the title of a random movie that is...
Jasmine is a great tool to unit test your JavaScript components without writing an expensive end-to-end test for...