Programming101-Ruby

The repository for Programming 101 with Ruby.

Course Program

This is a detailed program about the course, separated in weeks

Week 1

• Ruby introduction.
• Rbenv/Ruby Installer and Git setup.
• Introduction to the basic Ruby types, syntax & language structures.
• Solving problems with Ruby.

Week 2

• In depth look of Array, Hash, String, Symbol, Numeric.
• Introducing Ruby blocks.
• Working with Enumerable and all it's magic.

Week 3

• OOP Introduction. Classes, Modules and Constants.
• Freedom patching. Opening classes & adding functionality.
• Method resolution lookup and ancestor chain.
• Implementing our own Enumerable objects.

Week 4

• Keyword arguments & parallel assingments.
• Second take on Ruby OOP model
• Sending messages arround and responding to them. Working with method aliases.
• Understanding Duck Typing & SOLID principles.
• Solving OOP problems

Week 5

• Enumerators in Ruby.
• Lambda vs Proc semantics.
• • require vs load.
• Working IO in Ruby. Dealing with Files.
• Dealing with exceptions.

Week 6

• Kernel & Module methods.
• Constants & Scope
• Making namespaces in Ruby

Week 7

• Singleton classes.
• Dynamic method definition.
• Don't be evil: class_eval and instance_eval.
• Constants, instance variables API.

Week 8

• Threading or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the GIL.
• JRuby and Rubinius.
• Threading locals. Fibers.
• Basic networking.

Week 9

• RubyGems: The structure of a gem. Gem specifications. Rake. Bundler.
• Introspection & Meta programming in Ruby.

Week 10

• Looking at the bigger picture & solving problems using everything we know up to know.
• Working in teams

Week 11

• Intro to HTTP. The Tricky Parts: Cookies, Sessions.
• Intro to Sinatra.

Week 12

• Intro to SQL. Transactions, Primary Keys, Foreign Keys, Indexes.
• The Architecture of a Web app.

Week 13, 14, 15, 16 - The Rails part

• Intro to Rails: Convention over Configuration.
• Overview of the Builtin Frameworks, Scaffolding.
• Basic Routing and Controller Rendering.
• Views, Layouts and Partials Structure.
• Controller Rendering and Redirection. Basic Authentication. Rendering forms. Mailers, Intro to ActiveJob.
• Intro to ActiveRecord. Intro to schema.rb and Migrations. Validations and Callbacks. How not to abuse the callbacks.
• Basic Query Interface. Intro to associations. Associations in depth. Many-to-many, .through, Automatic Reverses.
• Transactions, Single table inheritence. Has Secure Password. Musings on Small Models. Sandi Metz 5 Rules. Thoughts on OOP.
• Routes inside out. Introduction to engines. Middleware, Rack, Railties, Initializers and Configuration.
• The Rails Eco System. Third party gems. Responders, Timecop, RSpec, Capybara. Active Model, Internationalization.
• Constant Autoloading explained. The Asset Pipeline. Rake Tasks, Command Line Tools and Debugging Rails applications.