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Back End 2 – Week 1

Welcome to the first week of Back End 2. In this unit, we will learn:

  • Configuring your machine for rails development
  • Creating Rail apps | Models | Views | Controllers

Back End Week 1 Goals

  • Rails development set-up
  • Simple blogging app
  • Work with models, views, and controllers to quickly add new features to your app
  • Understand how routes match to controller methods and path helpers

Curriculum

This is your curriculum for Back End II.
3.1 Setting Up for Rails Development
3.2 Ruby on Rails 5 Basics

3.3 Rails Routes and Resources

Assignment

The assignment for this week is to duplicate the instructor’s work on the blog application. You do not need to do rails new to start, because your assignment workspace is Here. Maintain your blog repository to reflect all changes that the instructor shows. It is important that you continue to make changes as the instructor directs, because otherwise you won’t remember the skills.

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