Join our immersive Ruby on Rails course and become a professional developer! Build a feature-rich application while mastering Rails and JavaScript.
This immersive Ruby on Rails course is designed to turn you into a professional developer! No more just following tutorials; you'll actually learn how to build a complete, feature-rich web application. With over 35 hours of content, hands-on projects, and insights from industry experts, you’re set to rock the coding world!
Don't simply follow a tutorial, learn what it really takes to become a pro Rails developer with this immersive course.
Latest course update: March 2021 - Added multiple sections for the Ruby on Rails 6 full course update.
Through the years I've constantly heard the same question from students: "I can follow a tutorial, but I don't feel confident enough to build apps/features from scratch". This course is my answer to that question. I'm not satisfied in simply teaching you how to build an application, my goal is to teach you to understand how to build professional web applications, not to simply follow a tutorial. This is the most comprehensive course I've ever put together and combines my 14+ years of development experience.
I took a completely different approach in building this course. This course is unique for a number of reasons:
Curriculum - After completing the initial course outline I sent it out to a group of CTOs and Senior Rails developers from around the world. I asked them to go through the list of features and add the full set of skills they look for when hiring Rails devs. The course outline literally doubled based on their input. So the features that we're going to build throughout this course aren't simply my idea of what it takes to build progressional grade Rails applications, it's the combined knowledge over over a dozen premier developers from a wide variety of industries. One of the hiring managers who reviewed the outline responded to the outline and said, "If you send me developers who build this full set of features, I'll hire them on the spot!".
Deep Dives - Going through tutorials is great. However, many times courses that simply walk through the build out of a project skip over important concepts. For this reasons I have created a Deep Dive at the end of each section of this course. These guides select the most challenging topics of each section and give a detailed walk through of the concept so that you can completely understand how to work with the key features of the Rails framework.
Full Stack - Many courses promise to teach you how to become a full stack developer, but most of them simply gloss over the concepts that you need in order to build truly professional applications. This course was built to walk you through a real world approach to full stack coding. This includes: backend development with Ruby on Rails, front end coding with HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery, along with advanced ways to use SQL for database management.
Immersive - This is not a light and easy course that you can go through in a weekend. This course was designed specifically for coding bootcamp students that have the goal of becoming professional developers. This means that there is over 35 hours of video lessons and you will build a professional grade Rails application by the time you have completed the course.
So with all that being said, let's talk about everything that we're going to build throughout the guides. We're going to build a feature rich portfolio application that you can actually use for your own portfolio (I'm even using it for my own portfolio). Let's walk through the full feature set of what the application will include:
Building out a professional Rails environment (if you're on a PC I even built a free C9 dashboard that you can use for this course).
We'll utilize Pivotal tracker to follow SCRUM project management best practices throughout the build of this application, just like you'll do in a professional dev shop.
Examine how to work with Rails generators, including how to customize the generators so that you can have your very own scaffolds.
Work with data flow in Rails. One of my strongest beliefs is that if you can understand how data flow works in Rails, you can build anything! With that in mind we'll take a step by step approach for understanding how data comes into a Rails app and how you can build features that utilize the process.
Manage a database. You'll learn advanced SQL techniques for working with data in a Rails application, including how to manage data relationships between tables along with what it takes to implement efficient queries.
Best practices. Writing clean code is one of the key requirements of professional Rails developers, throughout the course we'll walk through what professional grade code looks like and the common patterns you'll need to know in order to build well written applications.
JavaScript and jQuery components. One of the hallmarks of a modern Rails application is the proper integration of JavaScript features. Throughout the course we'll walk through advanced JavaScript features such as how to integrate drag and drop functionality for users and how to build dynamic forms that change based on user input, all without a page refresh!
Streaming Live Data/Page Updates with ActionCable. The top new feature in Rails 5 was definitely Action Cable, which allows for Rails to utilize web sockets and have live page updates. In this course we'll build a real time commenting feature for our portfolio that will showcase your JavaScript skills to everyone who visits your new site.
API Integration. Because most modern applications need to communicate with the outside world, in this course we'll build an integration with the Twitter API to pull in real time tweets into our portfolio application.
RubyGem Libraries. In addition to teaching you about how to use RubyGems in a Rails application, I also show you how to create your very own RubyGem from scratch and walk through how to use it in your application.
In addition to all of these features, we'll also examine: advanced forms, how to integrate professional styles by leveraging Bootstrap 4, building a connection to AWS for file uploads, and how to deploy our application to the web.
In addition to the lectures, I also include the source code for each guide so that you can always have access to the full codebase for the application.
I look forward to going through this immersive program with you and good luck with the coding!
Build a professional Rails application.
Implement advanced JavaScript components, such as persistent drag and drop functionality and live page update via ActionCable into a Rails application.
Deploying a Rails application along with the ActionCable web socket feature to Heroku.
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Jordan Hudgens is the CTO and Founder of Bottega where he leads instruction and curriculum development for all of the DevCamp and Bottega code schools around the US.As a full stack developer for over the past decade, Jordan has traveled the world building applications and training individuals on a variety of technology stacks, including: Ruby on Rails, Python, React JS,...
This is an excelent course, the features developed go from the basic to really cool stuff I haven't found in a course before. Jordan makes sure to guide you through it step by step with lots of details, which allows you to undestand a lot better what you are doing, that's awesome.
I just graduated a software development bootcamp and recently got hired as a Junior Web Developer. The company mostly use Ruby for the programming language and Ruby on Rails for their projects. As I already lack the experience in a real world environment for web development, having to learn a new programming language made the anxiety skyrocket. With this course, I am able to get a better grasp on the fundamentals of Rails. I definitely will be rewatching and working on the course project for a better understanding.
The instructor is very good at explaining the concept in a practical ways. Very good for experienced devs switching from some other framework like django to ruby on rails.
Note: This course is not suitable for beginners, you must have some prior knowledge of ruby & a bit of conventions stuff.
This is very good course because Mr. Jordan always tell us why we should do this or that, why we should not do this or that. It make me understand more about the fundamentals of web development, and of course about ruby on rails, about how ruby on rails works.
To say that I learned so much from this course would be a massive understatement! Not only is the instructor very knowledgeable but also gifted in the art of teaching. The course teaches not only the 'how' of working with Ruby on Rails but also the 'why'. This is very important especially for beginners to have a good understanding of the basics. I would highly recommended this course to anyone who wants to have a solid understanding of Ruby on Rails.
I wish I would've used this course months ago. Jordan is an excellent instructor and the deep dives are extremely helpful. I can't recommend this course enough for anyone interested in learning Rails.
So far, the best course for understanding Rails. Deep dives in this course is the main difference to other courses. Enrolling to this course gives you an experienced mentor, course instructor very quickly responses to the queries and guides into right direction/solution. Testing section is the only missing piece, hoping in upcoming videos will cover it.
This course it's from 2016. I'm doing it in 2020 and even tho it's a little outdated it's a very good introduction to Rails. Every time I got to a problem, in the comment section of the video someone had the solution. I also asked some question and the instructor answer them very quickly. It would be nice having an update on the state of Rails in 2020, I had to make a project in Rails 6 and I found that there are no new stuff, articles, videos, etc. I asked questions in stackoverflow and got no answers.
Anyway, I likeed the course and I liked Rails.
Great teacher, very deep course on Ruby on Rails. This is how development looks like! One of the best courses I was involved.
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Stuart W.
It was a very good and throrough course. Be warned if you try to do it in rails 7 you will have many difficulties. The course is taught in rails 5 and if you use that, then it will all work fine. Using rails 7 required finding many work arounds. However, the content was good and I learned a lot from it.