Git is our version control system. Goals Understand why we use git. Learn how to work with your local repository...
Understand at least the following CSS concepts: Classes Selecting elements for styling Basic styling (color, typography, spacing)
When your code does not behave as expected, you can use a debugger statement ("breakpoint") at any point in your...
As developers we are dealing with many tasks every week. We need a system to organize ourselves. Goals After completing...
Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous (it's in our library => Google Drive) CLI tricks every developer should...
Understand how we're dealing with exception notifications. Integrate exception notification into your MovieDB. Use your personal e-mail as...
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.
Read (or re-read) the following chapters from our book Growing Rails Applications in Practice (it’s in our...
Resources RubyGuides: Mastering Ruby Regular Expressions Using regular expressions in JavaScript Testing regular expressions visually Regular Expressions: Quantifier modes...
How do HTTP requests and responses look like? What are HTTP headers? What are they used for?
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...
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
Jasmine is a great tool to unit test your JavaScript components without writing an expensive end-to-end test for...
Learn to store attachments in a way that is accessible by authorized users only Learn to prevent users from...
Goal of this lesson is to understand what middlewares in Rack are good for. Rack Start with these articles:
Some tasks in a web application are better not done live when a user request a page, but in the...