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Rails is our web framework. Goals Be able to write a simple Rails application. Understand how Rails talks to the...

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Understand why we test: Low defect rate without a QA department. Customer acceptance testing can concentrate on new features...

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Basic validations Read the Rails Guide on ActiveRecord Validations. You should have an overview which kinds of validations are built...

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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...

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Learn to read and write Haml. Understand the different attributes syntaxes (curly braces vs. round parentheses) Exercises Convert MovieDB...

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...

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Understand what Memoization is and when it can be useful. Understand the @variable ||= computation pattern. Learn how to use...

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When your code does not behave as expected, you can use a debugger statement ("breakpoint") at any point in your...

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Built-in matchers Get an overview of all the matchers that are built into RSpec. Play with some of...

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makandra's development process Learn about our process. The squares represent the state of the issue in Linear:

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Understand why we use pagination Exercises Create 7500 movies in MovieDB (hint: Doing it in a single transaction is...

Learn to treat files as an ActiveRecord attribute type, like :string or :integer Research Look at the README for...

You have the following HTML structure:

If you want to run Javascript code whenever someone clicks on a ...

..., you...

A common task in web applications is to add client-side JavaScript behavior to existing HTML elements.

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...

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