Web security basics Einführung in die Web Security 🇩🇪 provides essentials for the topic of this card. Read following chapters:

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Authentication is all about being able to verify the identity of a user in the context of our application.

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Watch Solving bizarre authorization requirements with Rails Read the Consul README Read the assignable_values README Understand how Consul...

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Understand how nested attributes appear in the params. See how the Rails form helpers encode the names of nested...

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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...

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How do HTTP requests and responses look like? What are HTTP headers? What are they used for?

Software engineering principles Read about the following software engineering principles and code smells: Single Responsibility Principle Law of Demeter

Get an idea of the varying support for HTML/CSS/JavaScript features in different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge...

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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...

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

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Your MovieDB gained traction and is now a popular tool among cineasts. This comes with a downside: You noticed a...

Exercise 1: Maps In MovieDB, add a new field “Principal filming location”. In a movie’s show view, geocode that...

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...

Many of our clients can't or don't want to design their user interfaces. In the absence of a...

Adopting legacy Rails apps Talk to your mentor about how we're approaching applications that are either old or abandoned...