Rails Tutorial Checklist

Rails Tutorial Checklist

Content of Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl

Chapter 1 From zero to deploy

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.1.1 Prerequisites
• 1.1.2 Conventions used in this book
• 1.2 Up and running
• 1.2.1 Development environment
• 1.2.2 Installing Rails
• 1.3 The first application
• 1.3.1 Bundler
• 1.3.2 rails server
• 1.3.3 Model-View-Controller (MVC)
• 1.3.4 Hello, world!
• 1.4 Version control with Git
• 1.4.1 Installation and setup
• 1.4.2 What good does Git do you?
• 1.4.3 Bitbucket
• 1.4.4 Branch, edit, commit, merge
• 1.5 Deploying
• 1.5.1 Heroku setup
• 1.5.2 Heroku deployment, step one
• 1.5.3 Heroku deployment, step two
• 1.5.4 Heroku commands
• 1.6 Conclusion
• 1.6.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 2 A toy app

• 2.1 Planning the application
• 2.1.1 A toy model for users
• 2.1.2 A toy model for microposts
• 2.2 The Users resource
• 2.2.1 A user tour
• 2.2.2 MVC in action
• 2.2.3 Weaknesses of this Users resource
• 2.3 The Microposts resource
• 2.3.1 A micropost microtour
• 2.3.2 Putting the micro in microposts
• 2.3.3 A user has_many microposts
• 2.3.4 Inheritance hierarchies
• 2.3.5 Deploying the toy app
• 2.4 Conclusion
• 2.4.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 3 Mostly static pages

• 3.1 Sample app setup
• 3.2 Static pages
• 3.2.1 Generated static pages
• 3.2.2 Custom static pages
• 3.3 Getting started with testing
• 3.3.1 Our first test
• 3.3.2 Red
• 3.3.3 Green
• 3.3.4 Refactor
• 3.4 Slightly dynamic pages
• 3.4.1 Testing titles (Red)
• 3.4.2 Adding page titles (Green)
• 3.4.3 Layouts and embedded Ruby (Refactor)
• 3.4.4 Setting the root route
• 3.5 Conclusion
• 3.5.1 What we learned in this chapter
• 3.6 Advanced testing setup
• 3.6.1 minitest reporters
• 3.6.2 Automated tests with Guard

Chapter 4 Rails-flavored Ruby

• 4.1 Motivation
• 4.1.1 Built-in helpers
• 4.1.2 Custom helpers
• 4.2 Strings and methods
• 4.2.1 Comments
• 4.2.2 Strings
• 4.2.3 Objects and message passing
• 4.2.4 Method definitions
• 4.2.5 Back to the title helper
• 4.3 Other data structures
• 4.3.1 Arrays and ranges
• 4.3.2 Blocks
• 4.3.3 Hashes and symbols
• 4.3.4 CSS revisited
• 4.4 Ruby classes
• 4.4.1 Constructors
• 4.4.2 Class inheritance
• 4.4.3 Modifying built-in classes
• 4.4.4 A controller class
• 4.4.5 A user class
• 4.5 Conclusion
• 4.5.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 5 Filling in the layout

• 5.1 Adding some structure
• 5.1.1 Site navigation
• 5.1.2 Bootstrap and custom CSS
• 5.1.3 Partials
• 5.2 Sass and the asset pipeline
• 5.2.1 The asset pipeline
• 5.2.2 Syntactically awesome stylesheets
• 5.3 Layout links
• 5.3.1 Contact page
• 5.3.2 Rails routes
• 5.3.3 Using named routes
• 5.3.4 Layout link tests
• 5.4 User signup: A first step
• 5.4.1 Users controller
• 5.4.2 Signup URL
• 5.5 Conclusion
• 5.5.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 6 Modeling users

• 6.1 User model
• 6.1.1 Database migrations
• 6.1.2 The model file
• 6.1.3 Creating user objects
• 6.1.4 Finding user objects
• 6.1.5 Updating user objects
• 6.2 User validations
• 6.2.1 A validity test
• 6.2.2 Validating presence
• 6.2.3 Length validation
• 6.2.4 Format validation
• 6.2.5 Uniqueness validation
• 6.3 Adding a secure password
• 6.3.1 A hashed password
• 6.3.2 User has secure password
• 6.3.3 Minimum password standards
• 6.3.4 Creating and authenticating a user
• 6.4 Conclusion
• 6.4.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 7 Sign up

• 7.1 Showing users
• 7.1.1 Debug and Rails environments
• 7.1.2 A Users resource
• 7.1.3 Debugger
• 7.1.4 A Gravatar image and a sidebar
• 7.2 Signup form
• 7.2.1 Using form_for
• 7.2.2 Signup form HTML
• 7.3 Unsuccessful signups
• 7.3.1 A working form
• 7.3.2 Strong parameters
• 7.3.3 Signup error messages
• 7.3.4 A test for invalid submission
• 7.4 Successful signups
• 7.4.1 The finished signup form
• 7.4.2 The flash
• 7.4.3 The first signup
• 7.4.4 A test for valid submission
• 7.5 Professional-grade deployment
• 7.5.1 SSL in production
• 7.5.2 Production webserver
• 7.5.3 Production deployment
• 7.6 Conclusion
• 7.6.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 8 Basic login

• 8.1 Sessions
• 8.1.1 Sessions controller
• 8.1.2 Login form
• 8.1.3 Finding and authenticating a user
• 8.1.4 Rendering with a flash message
• 8.1.5 A flash test
• 8.2 Logging in
• 8.2.1 The log_in method
• 8.2.2 Current user
• 8.2.3 Changing the layout links
• 8.2.4 Testing layout changes
• 8.2.5 Login upon signup
• 8.3 Logging out
• 8.4 Conclusion
• 8.4.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 9 Advanced login

• 9.1 Remember me
• 9.1.1 Remember token and digest
• 9.1.2 Login with remembering
• 9.1.3 Forgetting users
• 9.1.4 Two subtle bugs
• 9.2 “Remember me” checkbox
• 9.3 Remember tests
• 9.3.1 Testing the “remember me” box
• 9.3.2 Testing the remember branch
• 9.4 Conclusion
• 9.4.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 10 Updating, showing, and deleting users

• 10.1 Updating users
• 10.1.1 Edit form
• 10.1.2 Unsuccessful edits
• 10.1.3 Testing unsuccessful edits
• 10.1.4 Successful edits (with TDD)
• 10.2 Authorization
• 10.2.1 Requiring logged-in users
• 10.2.2 Requiring the right user
• 10.2.3 Friendly forwarding
• 10.3 Showing all users
• 10.3.1 Users index
• 10.3.2 Sample users
• 10.3.3 Pagination
• 10.3.4 Users index test
• 10.3.5 Partial refactoring
• 10.4 Deleting users
• 10.4.1 Administrative users
• 10.4.2 The destroy action
• 10.4.3 User destroy tests
• 10.5 Conclusion
• 10.5.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 11 Account activation

• 11.1 Account activations resource
• 11.1.1 Account activations controller
• 11.1.2 Account activation data model
• 11.2 Account activation emails
• 11.2.1 Mailer templates
• 11.2.2 Email previews
• 11.2.3 Email tests
• 11.2.4 Updating the Users create action
• 11.3 Activating the account
• 11.3.1 Generalizing the authenticated? method
• 11.3.2 Activation edit action
• 11.3.3 Activation test and refactoring
• 11.4 Email in production
• 11.5 Conclusion
• 11.5.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 12 Password reset

• 12.1 Password resets resource
• 12.1.1 Password resets controller
• 12.1.2 New password resets
• 12.1.3 Password reset create action
• 12.2 Password reset emails
• 12.2.1 Password reset mailer and templates
• 12.2.2 Email tests
• 12.3 Resetting the password
• 12.3.1 Reset edit action
• 12.3.2 Updating the reset
• 12.3.3 Password reset test
• 12.4 Email in production (take two)
• 12.5 Conclusion
• 12.5.1 What we learned in this chapter
• 12.6 Proof of expiration comparison

Chapter 13 User microposts

• 13.1 A Micropost model
• 13.1.1 The basic model
• 13.1.2 Micropost validations
• 13.1.3 User/Micropost associations
• 13.1.4 Micropost refinements
• 13.2 Showing microposts
• 13.2.1 Rendering microposts
• 13.2.2 Sample microposts
• 13.2.3 Profile micropost tests
• 13.3 Manipulating microposts
• 13.3.1 Micropost access control
• 13.3.2 Creating microposts
• 13.3.3 A proto-feed
• 13.3.4 Destroying microposts
• 13.3.5 Micropost tests
• 13.4 Micropost images
• 13.4.1 Basic image upload
• 13.4.2 Image validation
• 13.4.3 Image resizing
• 13.4.4 Image upload in production
• 13.5 Conclusion
• 13.5.1 What we learned in this chapter

Chapter 14 Following users

• 14.1 The Relationship model
• 14.1.1 A problem with the data model (and a solution)
• 14.1.2 User/relationship associations
• 14.1.3 Relationship validations
• 14.1.4 Followed users
• 14.1.5 Followers
• 14.2 A web interface for following users
• 14.2.1 Sample following data
• 14.2.2 Stats and a follow form
• 14.2.3 Following and followers pages
• 14.2.4 A working follow button the standard way
• 14.2.5 A working follow button with Ajax
• 14.2.6 Following tests
• 14.3 The status feed
• 14.3.1 Motivation and strategy
• 14.3.2 A first feed implementation
• 14.3.3 Subselects
• 14.4 Conclusion
• 14.4.1 Guide to further resources
• 14.4.2 What we learned in this chapter