theodinproject / rails_course

Home of The Odin Project's rails curriculum

The Odin Project

The Odin Project (TOP) is an open-source curriculum for learning full-stack web development. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive curriculum to learn web development for free. We help users learn the skills and build the impressive portfolio of projects they need to get hired as a web developer.

Some of the topics we cover include:

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• SQL
• HTML and CSS
• Javascript
• Node
• React
• How to go about getting a job in the industry

This repo contains the TOP app which pulls in lesson content as well as front-end and back-end code. To see the actual lesson content that gets pulled in, please go to the TOP curriculum repo.

Our community can be found on the TOP Discord server.

Contributing

The Odin Project depends on open-source contributions to improve, grow, and thrive. We welcome contributors of all experience levels and backgrounds to help maintain this awesome curriculum and community. If you would like to contribute to our curriculum, be sure to thoroughly read our contributing guide.

Feel free to also watch this scrimba walkthrough of The Odin Project web app repo, which will give you an introduction to this repository. Note that since this scrimba was recorded, the content and/or structure may have changed in this repo. The focus of this scrimba is less on the actual content, but more of a high level overview.

rails_course's Issues

Rails Form Lesson

http://api.rubyonrails.org/v5.1/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_with
Work on replacing form_tag/form_for form lesson content with form_with content.

Add Topics

Add topics to repo for SEO

For Example:

Sinatra Basics

This lesson is no longer correct. The instructions on the Sinatra website have changed so the lesson needs to be updated to reflect that.

As an aside. Since Sinatra 2.0 was launched it would be good to find some nice tutorials that have been updated.

Link redirecting api_basics.md

Link to a blog for showing dynamic error pages is redirecting, so i'll make a pull request to replace it with this: https://pooreffort.com/blog/custom-rails-error-pages/

Broken link

In APIs and Building Your Own lesson, section Creating Dynamic Error Pages: the link to wearestac.com/blog/dynamic-error-pages-in-rails automatically redirects to https://stac.works/
guess the post doesn't exist any more

Second link in the assignment for introduction to frameworks broken

The second link in the assignment here is dead.

Syllabus

A place to discuss and decide upon the syllabus for this course.

Syllabus

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Section: The Track Ahead

• Lesson: How this course will work

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Section: Sinatra

• Lesson: Sinatra Basics
• Project: Sinatra Project

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Section: Introduction to rails

• Project: getting your feet wet
• Lesson: A Railsy Web Refresher
• Lesson: Deployment
• Project: Let's get building

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Section: Routes, Views, Controllers and Assets

• Lesson: Routing
• Lesson: Controllers
• Lesson: Views
• Lesson: the asset pipeline
• Project: Basic Routes, Views and Controllers

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Section: Databases and Active Record

• Lesson: Databases and SQL
• Project: SQL
• Lesson: Active Record Basics
• Project: Building With Active Record

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Section: Forms and Authentication

• Lesson: Form Basics
• Project: Forms
• Lesson: Sessions, Cookies and Authentication
• Project: Authentication

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Section: Advanced Forms and Active Record

• Lesson: Active Record Queries
• Lesson: Active Record Associations
• Project: Associations
• Lesson: Active Record Callbacks
• Project: Advanced Associations
• Lesson: Advanced Form
• Project: Building Advanced Forms

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Section: APIs, Mailers and Advanced Topics

• Lesson: Apis and building your own
• Lesson: Working with external APIs
• Project: APIs
• Lesson: Mailers
• Project: Sending confirmation Emails
• Lesson: Advanced Topics
• Project: Final Project
• Lesson: Conclusion

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RubyonRails routing lessons

Additional Resources link was redirecting to codeschool home-page, so i added a new link direct to youtube-video of codeschool 'Surviving APIs with Rails'

Move rails lessons over without breaking the internet

Railsy web refresher suggestion

Hi all,
I found a great video for http request/responds (headers)(methods), which i thought would be great to include at the 'Railsy web refresher'(Introduction to rails course).
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-the-web-works-http-and-the-web-server--cms-25971
It's just a suggestion, sorry if this is not the place to make suggestion, thought would be better to write here at issues section than in the forum.
Thanks.

DBs in the "Real World"

One of the strengths of TOP is that you're coding locally in your own environment. We do a great job with this except for one area in which I've heard a lot of people complain about. SQL

I know that we use several online resources and they are fun (SqlZoo, for example), but we should add a component that utilizes Postgres or MySQL locally. At this point in the curriculum the user should have some background knowledge of setting up programs on their machine.

Practice writing raw SQL queries, setting up users, tables, etc is an important component of working with Databases and Rails in general.

Keep up the strong work, gents 👍

Project: Basic Routes, Views and Controllers == rest-client Not found

##The course :
Project: Basic Routes, Views and Controllers
##The issue:
rest-client not found after using the script ruby /script/rest_requestor.eb
##Possible fix:
gem install rest-client

Broken page anchors

I've noticed we have in some links anchors such as #section-web-development-frameworks which no longer work. You simply get taken to the top of the page rather than the section specified.

Can we discuss a fix please.

Alternatives to rails guides

From the discussion this seems like the easiest win because no new content needs to be produced. Can we all please have a look through the rails curriculum at the links to rails guides and see if maybe any of us have some great alternatives in our bookmarks or know of any places to look?

Post here with the link and which part of the rails guide it can replace and we can discuss and I'll collect them at the top and we can choose which ones work best in the curriculum.

ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError

At forms project : https://github.com/TheOdinProject/rails_course/blob/master/rails_programming/forms_and_authentication/project_forms.md
When i execute step 11, i got 'ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError' , so probably we need to add a new step 'rake db:migrate' in order step 11 to work.
Can anyone confirm this?
I will make a pull request to add a migration step, after creating the model.