This document outlines a training course for learning Ruby on Rails. It introduces Ruby and Rails, then describes a 7 course curriculum covering the basics of building a forum application with user authentication and authorization, file uploads, pagination, deployment, and setting up a development environment. Each course includes links to additional resources and example applications. The goal is to provide students with the fundamental skills and knowledge needed to develop web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework.

1. My Rails Way
Ruby on Rails
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2. Who am I
• I’m
• Master: Ruby & Ruby on Rails
• Company: PIXNET
• Site: http://belovely.tw/
• Blog: http://wildjcrt.pixnet.net/
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3. Agenda
• Introduction Ruby on Rails
• Rails training course
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4. Introduction
Ruby on Rails
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5. Ruby
• Matz
• Perl 6 pearl
Ruby 7 ruby
* http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
* http://www.ruby-lang.org/zh_TW/ ( )
* http://ruby.tw/ ( )
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6. Ruby on Rails (1)
• David Heinemeier Hanson (37signals)
• Yehuda Katz (Engine Yard)
* http://rubyonrails.org/
* http://www.rubyonrails.org.tw/ ( )
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7. Ruby on Rails (2)
• A web framework for Ruby
• MVC architecture
• Agile software development
- Don't Repeat Yourself
- Convention over Configuration
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8. Website using Rails
• BeLovely
• Techbang
• Twitter
• Github
• Yellow Pages
• Basecamp
• ......more 8

9. Regular learning roadmap
http://techiferous.com/2010/07/
roadmap-for-learning-rails/
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10. So...
It takes a significant
investment of time to
learn Rails.
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11. In fact,
we already have a great
training course to enter Rails.
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12. Rails training course
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13. 2010 Ruby on Rails
Rails 2
• http://blog.xdite.net/?p=1754
- http://blog.xdite.net/?p=1807
- http://wildjcrt.pixnet.net/blog/post/
26624950
‣ pw: cite-on-rails
* This training course designs by xdite.
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14. Course purpose
• Basic knowledge
• Useful services
• Bottleneck
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15. Course 0: Git
• Open a project in github.
• Practice git useful commands.
- pull, push, commit, branch, add, checkout,
merge, status, diff, grep
* Peepcode Git Pro Git
* http://wildjcrt.pixnet.net/blog/post/
26458848
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16. Course 0: Editor
• vgod Vim
- http://blog.vgod.tw/2009/12/08/vim-cheat-
sheet-for-programmers/
* http://c9s.blogspot.com/2009/08/vim-hacks-
coscup.html
* Oreilly vi vim
* Pragmatic TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac
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17. Course 0: Linux CLI
• Peepcode Meet the Command Line
Advanced Command Line
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18. Reference before course
* http://rails.pixnet.net/blog/category/list/1603567
* http://wildjcrt.pixnet.net/blog/category/list/1431631
* Ruby Programming — Ruby
* Ruby for Rails - Rails Ruby
* The Well-Grounded Rubyist
* Rails
* Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition
* The Rails Way
* Ruby Pocket Reference
* Rails Recipes
* Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps
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19. Course 1 (1)
• Create a new rails project.
• Setup configuration.
- database.yml
- .gitignore
• Push to github.
* http://rails.pixnet.net/blog/post/22953827
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20. Course 1 (2)
• Complete a basic forum.
- Forum model CRUD (scaffold)
- Post model CRUD (scaffold)
- Setting routes in this format :
http://example.org/forums/1/posts/2
* http://rails.pixnet.net/blog/post/22956704
* http://ihower.tw/training/rails-tutoral.html
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21. Course 2
• User can login / logout / signup.
- Guest can view all posts.
- Post needs to login forum.
- User can only edit and destroy his own
posts.
• http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-
authentication plugin DRY!
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22. Course 3
• Forum posts order and paginate.
- params, pagination
- counter_cache
- named_scope :recent
• http://github.com/mislav/will_paginate plugin
* http://railscasts.com/episodes/23-counter-cache-
column
* http://railscasts.com/episodes/108-named-scope
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23. Course 4
• Attachment files
- PostAttachment model
- form_for, multipart
• http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip plugin
• http://github.com/technoweenie/
attachment_fu plugin
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24. Course 5
• Forum can manage admin accounts.
• Build backstage.
- route : namespace
- before_filter :require_is_admin
* http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2007/04/28/
namespaces-added-to-routes/
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25. Course 6
• Rake
- create seed data
- create fake data
• http://github.com/ryanb/populator plugin
* http://railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-
tutorial
* http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/5/13/what-s-
new-in-edge-rails-database-seeding
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26. Course 7 (1)
• Installing Ruby on Rails environment in a
pure OS (recommend Debian / Ubuntu).
- Ruby Enterprise Edition
- MySQL
- Apache / nginx
- Passenger
- Capistrano
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27. Course 7 (2)
• Deploy the practice project.
- Setup deploy.rb.
- Create an account for deploy.
- Setup ssh.
- Setup database, run migration.
- Setup virtual host.
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28. Course 7 (3)
* http://wildjcrt.pixnet.net/blog/post/
26624950
* http://blog.xdite.net/?p=1807
* AWDR3 deploy
* Ruby Pocket Reference capistrano
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29. Another Rails Training( )
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails
http://ihower.tw/ http://ihower.tw/
rails2/ rails3/
*designed by ihower
http://ihower.tw/blog/
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30. Related Link
• Ruby on Rails? 2009
- http://rails.pixnet.net/blog/post/27997778
• Ruby on Rails 2009
- http://rails.pixnet.net/blog/post/27997784
• Rails
- http://wildjcrt.pixnet.net/blog/post/26624950
• Rails
- http://wildjcrt.pixnet.net/blog/post/27037216
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31. Q &A
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