This course is for you if you are a new Rails developer who has just completed boot camp and are wondering, “Now what?”
It covers the edge cases and gotchas often missed debugging techniques, essential upgrading advice, and more. Its intention is to give an important introduction to the slightly harder parts of Rails.
On the other hand, this course is more of an overview to help the beginner-intermediate Rails developer learn some advanced debugging techniques and implementation patterns (ok, we can call them “tricks”). This course does not go deep into code architecture.
It is a popcorn-style course: Although it is presented in sections, you do not need to take it in order; you may skip around and go through each lesson as you need it.
Before you begin this course, you should have a solid understanding of the basics of MVC and Rails ActiveRecord relationships (has_many, belongs_to, has_many :through, etc).
- Matz is Nice and So We Are Nice
- Identity Crisis
- Uninitialized Constant OBJECT (while in a Rake task)
- Rails Magic Autoload (Zeitwerk)
- Avoiding Fat Models by Preferring Composition Over Inheritance
- Learning Postman
- Advanced Rails Debugging
- Ruby Debugging Basics
- Cache or Bust
- A Word About Flash Messages
- OpenStruct Secret Tool
- Antipattern: Fire & Forget
- Who is N+1?
- Learning ActiveRecord
- Rails Migrations Tips & Tricks
- ActiveRecord Chainable Scopes
- Ensure with Explicit Return
- Enumerated Types in Rails and Postgres (Rails 6 only)
- The Magic of Enums in Rails
- Upgrading to Rails 3, 3.1, and 3.2
- Upgrading to Rails 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2
- Upgrading to Rails 5.0
- Upgrading to Rails 5.1 + 5.2
- Upgrading to Rails 6.0
- Upgrading to Rails 6.1
- Adding jQuery to a Rail 6 App using Webpacker
- Why Don’t My Assets Reload Correctly in Rails 6 or 7 (Sprockets, Webpacker, JS Bundling, & Shakapacker)
- The PLATFORMS section of your Gemfile.lock
- Using Rails with SSL on Localhost
- Add Rubocop
- Working with Mobile Phones
- Ruby Arguments: Equal Signs, Colons, Splats (*), Double Splats (**) Explained (Positional, Keyword, and Rest, and Keyword Arguments in Ruby)
- Jason Fleetwood-Boldt’s Rails 7 Cookbook