Rails Crash Course

Rails is a robust, flexible development platform that lets you build complex websites quickly. Major websites like GitHub, Hulu, and Twitter have run Rails under the hood, and if you know just enough HTML and CSS to be dangerous, Rails Crash Course will teach you to harness Rails for your own projects and create web applications that are fast, stable, and secure. In Part I, you ll learn Ruby and Rails fundamentals and then dive straight into models, controllers, views, and deployment. As you work through the basics, you ll learn how to: Craft persistent models with Active Record Build view templates with Embedded Ruby Use Git to roll back to previous versions of your code base Deploy applications to Heroku In Part II, you ll take your skills to the next level as you build a social networking app with more advanced Ruby tools, such as modules and metaprogramming, and advanced data modeling techniques within Rails s Active Record. You ll learn how to: Implement an authentication sy See more