Journey of building robust and production quality Rails application

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Getting started

• Getting started with Rails

Warming up

• Install ruby on rails development environment for mac os x
• Sublime Text tips and tricks
• Vim plugin management with pathogen
• Git and Github workflow
• Haml basics

Week 0

• Create data model with github commit
• Seeding data
• Create a simple data backed home page
• Create one to many data model association with github commit

Week 1

• Getting started with rspec
• Writing model tests with Rspec
• Implement search feature in rails with github commit
• Serves static page with github commit
• Authentication from scratch with github commit
• Differences between model backed form and non model backed form in rails

Week 2

• Writing controller tests with Rspec with github commit
• An alternative style of rspec
• Object generation with fabrication and faker
• TDD in action with github commit
• Implement user can review videos

Week 3

• Interactive debugging for solution discovery
• Work with complex form
• ActiveRecord transaction and exception handling in rails
• Skinny controller fat model
• Use rails application helper to reduce repetition
• ActiveRecord virtual attributes and memorization techniques
• Use rspec macros and shared examples to make test more concise and expressive
• Feature test with capybara with github commit plus refactor
• Three different ways to locate html element when writing feature test
• Baisc xpath rules and examples

Week 4

• Three styles of BDD with Rails
• HMT and HABTM
• Self Referential Associations
• Unveil self referential associations magic
• Implement twitter like following and follower relationship with github commit
• Send email in your rails app
• Test email sending
• Deploy rails app to Heroku
• Set random tokens
• Add new column to table and make sure the existing data does not blow off
• Use named_route_url style to generate absolute URLs for ActionMailer
• Use virtual resource to avoid jam actions in one controller

Week 5

• Interact with emails in feature tests
• Put chubby models on a diet with concerns
• Mailgun addons for heroku
• Use sidekiq to send emails from background jobs
• Setup production server on heroku with procfile foreman unicorn and sidekiq
• Use background jobs for emailing with 1 dyno on heroku
• Understand staging server and production server
• a simple deployment pipeline theory
• Set up production error monitoring with Sentry
• Set up the deployment pipeline with paratrooper

Week 6

• Separating actors and securing access
• File uploading to s3 with carrierwave
• Manage sensitive information with figaro
• Use Stripe Checkout to charge credit card with github commit
• Use Stripe custom form to charge credit card
• How to incorperate javascript in your rails app

Week 7

• Build API wrapper model
• OOP in action
• Fully integrated api wrapper model tests and isolated API tests stubbing out the Internet with vcr with github commit
• Controller test with doubles and method stubs
• Feature test with JavaScript using selenium together with VCR and database-cleaner
• Use initializer to store common settings
• Beyond MVC (1) - Decorators
• Beyond MVC (2) - Policy Objects
• Beyond MVC (3) - Domain Objects
• Beyond MVC (4) - Service Objects
• Beyond MVC (5) - Object Composition, Object Oriented Design and YAGNI
• Message expectations
• Use Mocking to test object communications
• Stubs and mocks, plus a video material