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...
Learn to create test data effectively using factories. Decouple tests by having each test start with an empty database...
Basic validations Read the Rails Guide on ActiveRecord Validations. You should have an overview which kinds of validations are built...
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...
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...
Learn to treat files as an ActiveRecord attribute type, like :string or :integer Research Look at the README for...
Advanced cucumber features Learn about the following cucumber features: Doc Strings ("multiline strings") Tables Tags Before/after hooks Background Scenario outlines...
We use Selenium WebDriver integrated with Cucumber/Capybara for full-stack integration testing. Try and use it Your forked MovieDB should...
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:
Understand how nested attributes appear in the params. See how the Rails form helpers encode the names of nested...
Read (or re-read) the following chapters from our book Growing Rails Applications in Practice (it’s in our...
Get an idea of the varying support for HTML/CSS/JavaScript features in different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge...
While working on a Rails application, your code base will grow a collection of different file types including: Ruby (business...
Congratulations, you just made it through about half of our curriculum deck! 🎉 We've covered the basics of your future...
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...
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