A few weeks ago I was looking at Peter Cooper’s Ruby course and wound up proposing a Basic Ruby on Rails course. Interestingly enough, I’ve been named the instructor for the course.
I’ve been working on the curriculum, what I want to teach and what to include to help people pick it up. Of course, it’s always interesting both in applications and other areas like this one to figure out what is essential and what can be omitted. The obvious inclusions are explaining MVC, and demonstrating Models, Views, and Controllers. I also feel like testing is essential and several tools that are either included with Rails or help in building it.
I’ve been using MindMeister (affiliate link) to organize my thoughts. I’ve broken the curriculum up over 6 weeks to basically include the following:
- Rails Structure, Setup, and Tools
- Rails Views
- Rails Controllers
- Rails Models
- Extending Rails
- Testing Rails
If there are things you would like to learn that don’t appear to be included in this curriculum, please email me and let me know.
