Course Introduction

Quick reference

• 00:04 Welcome to Ruby on Rails for Web Development.
• 00:06 My name is John Elder and I'll be your instructor today.
• 00:09 In this course I'm gonna teach you everything you need to know to
• 00:11 start building really cool web apps with Ruby on Rails.
• 00:13 Throughout the course, we're gonna be building a clone of the website Pinterest.
• 00:16 And if you take a look, it's just a very basic thing.
• 00:19 We've got some pagination, we've got images.
• 00:21 People can log in, log out, join, you can view pins, you can go back.
• 00:26 You can edit things and it looks like a pretty simple app.
• 00:28 But there's a lot of intricate stuff going on here.
• 00:30 And it's really gonna give you a solid foundation of Rails.
• 00:33 So the first section, we're gonna be going through and
• 00:36 talking about how to set up a development environment.
• 00:38 How to get the tools and the things you need in order to start coding in Rails.
• 00:42 I'm also gonna talk about version control, Git and GitHub.
• 00:45 Then we gonna spend the minute to talking about the MVC architecture that's model,
• 00:49 view and controller and
• 00:50 that's the kind of architecture that Rails runs on.
• 00:53 After that, we're gonna talk about basic web hosting for your app and
• 00:56 we're gonna be using something called Heroku in this course.
• 00:58 In the next section, we'll jump right in and start building our website.
• 01:01 And I think you're gonna see that it's gonna come very fast.
• 01:04 It doesn't take a lot of time to start building really professional
• 01:07 looking websites.
• 01:07 And we'll start right in, in the second section, doing that.
• 01:10 We'll create our first webpage.
• 01:11 We'll talk about routing and the gem file.
• 01:13 We'll talk about adding additional pages and creating links, and embedded Ruby,
• 01:17 and building a nav bar, and using CSS, and Bootstrap, and partials and jumbotrons,
• 01:21 and all kinds of cool stuff like that.
• 01:22 And that will be the second section.
• 01:24 In the third section, we'ill start adding functionality to the website.
• 01:27 We'ill be able to allow people to join your site, login, logout and
• 01:31 we'll start doing all sort of database stuff.
• 01:33 We'll also go into uploading images and storing those images and
• 01:36 doing some automated imagery sizing and stuff like that.
• 01:40 So that's probably the most difficult part of the entire course, but
• 01:43 it should be pretty easy and we should have a lot of fun doing that.
• 01:46 After that, in the fourth section we will talk about advanced layout stuff.
• 01:49 We'll get into a little bit of jQuery and then,
• 01:51 we'll work on some behind the scenes database stuff and
• 01:53 some of the little nitty gritty things that are important to take a look at.
• 01:56 And then that's pretty much it.
• 01:58 So when you get done you'll have this kind of cool app.
• 02:00 I mean it doesn't serve much of a purpose, but
• 02:02 the things that we'll learn when we build this thing will give you the tools that
• 02:05 you need to build any kind of website that you want.
• 02:07 And there's some pretty advanced stuff that we're gonna be talking about like
• 02:11 database and adding users and authenticating users,
• 02:13 uploading images, doing things like that.
• 02:15 It's gonna give you a lot of tools that you can use for years and
• 02:18 years to come and should be a lot of fun.
• 02:19 So I'm looking forward to this course, I hope you're excited.
• 02:22 And in the next video, let's jump right in and
• 02:24 start talking about our development environment.

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