RUBY-MONSTERS-LESSONS

The lessons content for the Ruby Monsters coaching sessions Please notice that this repository has branches for each of these classes. Just switch the branch to access desired lesson.

So far we had the following lessons:

Introduction to Ruby:

We had two classes about how the basic ruby works, with the following content:

• what is a variable
• basic ruby language constructs (Hash, Array etc)
• defining our own classes
• creating objects

Introduction to RSpec:

We started with writing model and controller spec. I have explained what are the tests/specs for and how they ensure confidence in each line of code that we type. Guys got introduced to the concept of Test Driven Development with writting their tests first to spec the requirements through them.

Introducion to resources:

We started by writting each of 7 RESTful methods ourselves in routes.rb and at the end when everyone understood the difference between GET, POST, PUT, DELETE HTTP verbs we moved on and used 'resources :contacts' to auto render our routes.

Next I explained how the default routing actions map to controller actions and how these map to corresponding views (naming conventions)

Introduction to Heroku

I believe Heroku is the easiest way to start deploying new projects and have them accessible online. We did the whole lesson about how to use heroku through 'git push' command. There was a brief explanation of Heroku's philosophy and ideas of what is 'server/dyno'.