Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp
Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp is an intensive 5-day training course specifically designed for Ruby on Rails developers.
This course will present all the Big Boy Rails topics - things we leave out in the Basic course - like how Rails itself works, production deployment/scaling-type activities, and advanced tricks and tips with the framework itself.
We want to create Ruby on Rails Rockstars - those who can utilize all features of the framework, and can even give back through plugins, gems, and contributing to source after the course.
Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp is designed for:
- Ruby on Rails developers who need to go beyond the basics
- Ruby developers who like to learn all about the secrets of Rails development
- Former students of our Ruby on Rails Bootcamp to bring their own projects to the next level
Upon completion of Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, the student will:
- Understand how core components of Ruby on Rails work
- Be able to 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
- Be able to 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
- Be able to create and utilize Ruby on Rails generators, plugins, and Ruby libraries to quickly add extended functionality and features
- Be able to setup several different Production/Deployment scenarios
Upcoming Classes
| Date | Instructor | Price | Status | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11 - 15 | Charles B. Quinn | €2800 | Register Now | Frankfurt, Germany |
Prerequisites
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.
Syllabus
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Price
A five-day class, a student guide, a luxury room, three delicious meals a day, a stylish "Big Nerd Ranch" t-shirt, and transportation to and from the airport for only $3500. Plan to arrive on Sunday evening and depart on Friday afternoon.
When the class is offered in Europe, the price is €2800 plus VAT. (€2600 plus VAT if you register at least five weeks before the class begins.)