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Ruby on Rails II Bootcamp

Future Ruby on Rails rockstars - this is your class!

Ruby on Rails II Bootcamp is an intensive 5-day training course that addresses all the heavy duty Rails topics - like how Rails itself works, production deployment/scaling-type activities, and advanced tricks and tips with the framework itself.

Learn to utilize all features of the framework, and give back through plugins, gems, and contributing to source after the course.

Ruby on Rails II Bootcamp is designed for:

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

Upcoming Classes

Date Instructor Price Status Venue
Dec 14 - 18 Charles B. Quinn $3500 Register Now!
3 Spaces Left!
Atlanta, Georgia

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

What's Included

Class price includes all class materials, a luxury room, three delicious meals a day, a stylish Big Nerd Ranch t-shirt, and ground transportation to and from the airport. Plan to arrive the afternoon or evening before your class begins and depart on the last day of your class after 4 PM.