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Build your own Instagram with Ruby on Rails from scratch

Learn to code your own type of Instagram App step by step using Ruby on Rails Framework

Instructor:

Bluelime Learning Solutions

79 students enrolled

English [Auto]

Create a new rails project

Create controllers

Create models

Associate models

Add forms to your app

Create image upload functionality

Create full CRUD functionality

Implement authentication system

Use bootstrap

Add gems and install gems

Use validation

Add pagination

The best way to learn a programming language and a framework is by building something with it. We are going to build our own style type of Instagram app with authentication system to allow people to sign-up and join in order to post images.

The app will also have the option for people to comment on posted images.
The app has full CRUD (create,update,read ,delete) functionality.

Ruby is a modern object oriented programming language, and Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful frameworks for building web applications. Rails was built using Ruby and makes it much easier to develop web applications with Ruby. Some notable applications have been built using Ruby on Rails: They incude

Basecamp, Twitter, Shopify, Github, LivingSocial, Groupon, Hulu, Airbnb, Yellow Pages to just mention a few.. A google search will reveal much more..

This course is for the absolute beginner to Ruby programming language and Rails framework.
I will guide you through setting up your development environment. Then we will cover some basics of the Ruby programming language. We will also install git and touch on github which is used for version control.
We will create a complete image sharing application like instagram from scratch using Rails and in the process build up your skills.

Concepts we will cover while building our Instagram style app project include:

Creating a new rails project
Updating gems using bundler
Starting rails server
Creating controllers
Creating models
Associating models
creating views
Generating models
Running migrations
Creating posts
Editing posts
Reading posts
Deleting posts
Adding links to posts
Creating comments
Deleting comments
Creating controller actions
Setting up routes
Adding resources and automatically generating routes
Implementing authentication system
Image uploading
Adding comments

Adding Pagination

By the end of this course you would have developed enough skills to be build other projects.

Introduction and Setup

Introduction

What is Ruby

Famous websites built with Ruby on Rails

Downloading Ruby on Rails

Installing Ruby on Rails

Ways to interact with Ruby

Interacting with Ruby using Commandline

Interacting with Ruby via a file

Interacting with Ruby via a Shell

Using Variables in Ruby

Variable Scopes

Ruby Constants

Ruby Arrays

Manipulating Arrays

Arithmetic Operators

Logical Operators

Comparison Operators

Using while loops

Using For loop

Using Comments in Ruby

Conditional statements

What is MVC

Ruby Gems

Basic Gem commands

Using Ruby Each method

Installing Rails

Introduction to web servers

Using Bundle

Generators

Creating a new rails project

Exploring rails project content - part 1

Exploring rails project content - part 2

Starting the rails web server

Modifying your gem file

Implementing C R U D

Creating a controller

Creating an action for a controller

Setting application home page

Creating a new resource.

Checking define routes for your app

Creating a Post Model

Requirements for paperclip

Installing Paperclip Requirements

installing papaerclip

Adding Paperclip to Post Model

Add actions to create new post

Adding a form

Implementing Strong Parameters

Installing DB browser for SQLlite

Uploading Images

Wrapping post Images in Divs using Bootstrap

Modifying the index template

Mobile first upload

Adding navigation

Styling the app

Updating Posted Images

Deleting Posted Images

Adding Bootstrap buttons to links

Refactoring Part1

Refactoring Part 2

Overview of post controller

Flashing Messages

Implementing Authentication

Adding the devise gem

Creating a devise User model

Adding custom columns to devise users tables

Adding validation to the User model

Creating a registration controller

Adding bycrypt gem updated

Linking post to users part 1

Linking post to users part 2

Linking post to users part 3

Checking changes

Adding security to posts

Adding Comments To Post Images

Introduction to adding comments

Generating a comment model

Generating comments controller

Adding a comment form

Adding a partial form

Add length validation and time post was created

Introduction to using AJAX with comments

Implementing AJAX for comments -Part 1

Implementing AJAX for comments -Part 2

Testing comments works

Adding Style to Forms

Styling the new Registration Form

Making Login form more presentable

Styling the create new post form - part 1

Styling the create new post form - Part 2

Adding Pagination

Building User Profiles

Making usernames clickable links

Generating a Profiles Controller

Creating the ability to edit user profiles

creating the view to edit user profiles

Adding Avatars to the user model

creating a new helper method

Viewing everyone's bio and avatar

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You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

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