Ruby is the programming language we use on the backend. Goals After finishing this lesson you should be able to...
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)
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...
Read the following chapters from The Pragmatic Programmer, anniversary edition (in our library): Chapter 1, Topic 3: Software Entropy...
Built-in matchers Get an overview of all the matchers that are built into RSpec. Play with some of...
As developers we are dealing with many tasks every week. We need a system to organize ourselves. Goals After completing...
Understand the differences between git diff and git diff --staged (or git diff --cached) Understand the difference between git...
Web security basics Einführung in die Web Security 🇩🇪 provides essentials for the topic of this card. Read following chapters:
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...
Method lookup Understand all the terms in How Ruby method lookup works, in particular: include extend singleton class
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...
Read the following material: World's shortest UI/UX design course 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)
For each movie in MovieDB, we want to track which other movie it was inspired by. For...