What You’ll Learn

Upon completion of Ruby on Rails II, the student will be able to:

• Understand how core components of Ruby on Rails work
• Apply Ruby on Rails best practices
• Understand basic and advanced features of ActiveRecord to model simple and complex relationships between data models
• Understand basic and advanced features of ActionPack's ActionView to create DRY interfaces and reusable, clean views and layouts
• Understand basic and advanced features of ActionPack's ActionController to create skinny controllers with degradable, RESTful interfaces
• Apply RESTful principles to setup Resource-based web applications and Nested Resources with custom actions
• Understand Test-Driven Development (TDD) using Unit Testing and RSpec
• Create rich Ajax interfaces and be able to debug them effectively
• Avoid Security pitfalls and deployment problems
• Debug applications using breakpoints, logging and prototyping in an interactive console
• Create and utilize Ruby on Rails generators, plugins, and Ruby libraries to quickly add extended functionality and features
• Setup several different Production/Deployment scenarios

Ruby on Rails II SYLLABUS

Section	Contents
Open Ruby on Rails II Bootcamp
Ruby + Advanced Ruby	Arguments, hashes/arrays in depth, metaprogramming, ActiveSupport
Using Rails in a Team	Best practices, migration usage, setting up app, using source-control
Testing Best Practices	Test driven development, RSpec/behavior driven design
Design Decisions, the Rails Way	MVC in depth: fat model, skinny controller design
Routing + Advanced Routing	Paths and urls, named-routes, regexs, defaults
RESTful Design	Building RESTful interfaces, utilizing ActiveResource
Advanced ActiveRecord	Aggregations, polymorphism, STI, observers, acts_as_xxx
Advanced ActiveRecord Associations	Associations, proxy methods, association extensions
Forms and Handling Data	Building forms using form_for, form_tag, handling multiple models
Ajax Advanced Topics	Helpers, debugging w/ firebug, javascript debug consoles
Authentication	HTTP authorization, OpenID, acts_as_authenticated
Session Management	Switching from pstore to ARstore/SQLStore, memcache store
Mail Sending and Receiving	ActionMailer in depth, multi-part messages, attachments
Exception handling best practices	Logging, param filtering, exception notifier, bug tracking
Deployment	Setting up servers, capistrano, managing, production servers (tuning)
Backend Tasks and Considerations	Long-running tasks, periodic tasks, daemons
Benchmarking and Performance	HTML page caching, HTML fragment caching, sweepers, object memcaching
Security	SQL Injection, HTML Escaping, CSRF, logs, server security
Rails Plugins, Ruby Gems	Writing plugins, writing gems (setting up gem server), sharing libraries, writing your own acts_as_xxxx, Contributing to Rails
Real-world Databases	When to add indexes, analyzing queries, when to break into raw SQL, eager loading
Searching	Using SQL LIKE, field level, full-text search in database, then Ferret, Solr
Localization / Internationalization	i8n, L10n, Unicode, globalization
File Manipulation	Dealing with attachments / file uploads, image processing
Rails in the Real-World	Breaking down several real-world projects

REQUIREMENTS

Students should have a basic understanding of the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails. They should have completed some Ruby on Rails development, produced a Ruby on Rails application, or worked on one in a team.