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 at least the following CSS concepts: Classes Selecting elements for styling Basic styling (color, typography, spacing)
JavaScript is a scripting language supported by all browsers. Browsers don't speak Ruby, so if we want to implement...
JavaScript code can access and manipulate the browser's DOM tree. Using JavaScript we can add interactive behavior to our...
In this card we will learn to write code that scales with a large number of database records. We will...
When your code does not behave as expected, you can use a debugger statement ("breakpoint") at any point in your...
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...
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:
Authentication is all about being able to verify the identity of a user in the context of our application.
Watch Solving bizarre authorization requirements with Rails Read the Consul README Read the assignable_values README Understand how Consul...
Read (or re-read) the following chapters from our book Growing Rails Applications in Practice (it’s in our...
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...
Stepping forward from JavaScript Basics, the goal of this card is for you to be able to read and write...
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...
Rubymonk training Read the following Rubymonk articles: Ruby Primer: Ascent (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby: Ascent (archived...
Method lookup Understand all the terms in How Ruby method lookup works, in particular: include extend singleton class
Your MovieDB gained traction and is now a popular tool among cineasts. This comes with a downside: You noticed a...