Course Details

3 credits

Rails I

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Course Description

The Ruby on Rails course will teach students the basics of designing and implementing web applications using the model/view/controller design pattern with the Ruby on Rails framework. Included with this, students will be taught how to perform migrations, how to work with object relational mappings, how to work with routing, how to perform ajax operations, and performing test driven development.

Objectives

  1. Students should be able to interpret written programming specifications
  2. Students should be able to debug and test Rails applications
  3. Students should be able to understand and use the Model View Controller design pattern
  4. Students should be able to use ActiveRecord with associations to interact with a database
  5. Students should be able to create RESTful Ruby on Rails web applications

Potential Assignments