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Extensive Introduction to Ruby on Rails Training

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Course Description

  
This 4 - day course describes how to learn to program the major components of Rails, including Active Record, Action Controller, and Action View. Students are taken through the various steps of creating a full - fledged Web Application. Topics include the MVC paradigm,object relational mapping, fill - in forms, sessions, validation techniques, testing, and various other Rails topics. This course covers the fundamental components of the Ruby Programming Language. Emphasis is placed on the object oriented aspects of Ruby. Topics include arrays, hashes, regular expressions, io, exceptions, modules, and applications areas.
Course Length: 4 Days
Course Tuition: $1690 (US)

Prerequisites
Students who are familiar with Ruby Programming language, SQL database and have an understanding of HTML.

Course Outline

  
Extensive Review/Introduction to Ruby
 
Getting Started/Get Something Running
 
Working with Active Record
 
Enhancing the Model/Advanced Active Record
 
The View and Controller
 
JavaScript and CSS
 
Deploying a Rails Application

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Ruby Programming Uses & Stats

Ruby Programming is Used For:
Desktop GUI's Web Applications Web Development
Difficulty
Popularity
Year Created
1995
Pros
Easy to Learn:
Along with Python, Ruby is regarded as one of the easier languages to learn
 
Growing Community: 
Ruby has a vast collection of open source code available within the Rails community.
 
Readable Code:
Ruby is mostly self-documenting which increases productivity because there is less need to write out separate documentation. As a result it makes it easier on developers to pick up existing projects. 
 
Good for Rapid Application Development (RAD):
Rails framework makes it easy to accommodate changes. 
Cons
Performance and Scalability:
There have been concerns that Rails applications are not as fast as Java or C, which is true, but for the majority of applications it is fast enough.
 
Not All Website Hosts Can Support Rails:
Alternatively, Rails application can be hosted on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with Amazon EC2, Rackspace, or Linode. 
 
Documentation: 
It can be a bit challenging to find documentation for popular gems and libraries that heavily involve using mixins. 
Ruby Programming Job Market
Average Salary
$102,000
Job Count
15,287
Top Job Locations

New York City
Seattle
San Francisco
Complimentary Skills to have along with Ruby Programming

If you are just learning to write code, Ruby is one of the best languages to start with. Ruby is a dynamic, object oriented , general purpose programming language. 

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