Ruby Programming & Ruby on Rails Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• • Administration and Course Materials
• • Course Structure and Agenda
• • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO RUBY

• • What is Ruby
• • What is it used for
• • Installing Ruby?
• • Ruby Basics - objects,regular expressions,arrays,hashes,Object Orientation

Session 2: RUBY LANGUAGE ELEMENTS

• • Variables and constants
• • Operators
• • Assignments
• • Integer,float and string formats
• • Single and double quotes
• • Here documents
• • Labs

Session 3: CONTROL STRUCTURES

• • Blocks and if statement
• • Boolean and range operators
• • Conditionals - if,unless,case
• • Loops - while,for in,until
• • break,next,retry and redo
• • Labs

Session 4: CLASSES AND OBJECTS

• • Objects,classes and methods
• • Constructors and attributes
• • Instance and class variables
• • Local and global variables
• • Class and object methods
• • Including external files - load and require
• • Labs

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: INPUT AND OUTPUT IN RUBY

• • Opening and closing files
• • Reading from and writing to files
• • Labs

Session 6: ARRAYS AND HASHES IN RUBY

• • Arrays and hashes
• • Building an array
• • The %w shortcut
• • Nesting arrays
• • Hash keys
• • Iterators
• • Labs

Session 7: OBJECT ORIENTATION

• • Inheritance
• • Base classes and subclasses
• • What's inherited
• • Overriding
• • Abstract classes
• • Polymorphism
• • Multiple Inheritances
• • Class structure
• • Visibility
• • Labs

Session 8: CLASSES AND OBJECT SCOPING

• • Public,private and protected visibility
• • Singletons and defs
• • Inheritance mixins
• • Destructors and garbage collection
• • Namespaces and modules
• • Hooks
• • Freezing objects
• • Labs

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 9: OBJECT ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES

• • Clusters of classes
• • Programming and method standards
• • Formal Methods
• • Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• • Views

Session 10: STRINGS AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

• • Meta Characters
• • Anchors,literals,character groups and counts
• • Matching in Ruby
• • Modifiers i,o,x and m
• • Pattern matching variables
• • Labs

Session 11: SPECIAL VARIABLES AND PSEUDO-VARIABLES

• • ARGV and $0
• • Special variables
• • Environment variables
• • Pseudo-variables
• • Reserved words in Ruby
• • Labs

Session 12: EXCEPTIONS

• • Begin and end
• • Raise and rescue
• • Throw and catch

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 13: REST

• • What is REST
• • RESTful architecture
• • A simple REST client

Session 14: INTRODUCTION TO RUBY ON RAILS

• • Install Ruby on Rails on an operating system
• • The Model-View-Controller approach
• • Rails Conventions
• • Rails project structure
• • Using RubyGems with Rails

Session 15: ROUTING

• • What is a Route
• • Define routes that recognize incoming URLs
• • Use named route methods to generate URLs based on the routing scheme
• • Apply and understand the RESTful routing conventions
• • Design apps to take advantage of the REST conventions in Rails

Session 16: MODELS

• • What is a Model
• • Using ActiveRecord
• • Validations
• • Associations
• • Migrations

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 17: CONTROLLERS

• • What is a Controller
• • Creating controllers
• • Using ActionController
• • Writing Actions
• • Filters

Session 18: VIEWS

• • What is a View
• • Exploring ActionView
• • Writing Views for actions
• • Partials
• • Forms

Session 19: CREATING A RAILS PROJECT

• • Creating the project
• • Project Directory structure
• • Using the Rails web server
• • Creating the initial controller
• • Modify the initial index.html file
• • Setting the Route
• • Creating a resource
• • Viewing routes with rake

Session 20: RAILS SCAFFOLDING

• • What is Scaffolding
• • Creating a new project
• • Generating the Rail Scaffold
• • Customising the application