This is 2 pretty different courses rolled into 1 - a course focused on some quite astonishing language features of Ruby, and then a web-development course focused on Rails' interpretation of the MVC paradigm.
Let's parse that.
- 2 pretty different courses rolled into 1: Rails and Ruby are taught in very different ways, because they are very different topics
- the astonishing language features of Ruby: Ruby really has some very distinctive features as a language - almost Scala-like in many ways. Sophisticated control transfer mechanisms such as coroutines and blocks, functional constructs such as closures (via procs!) and lambdas, multiple inheritance via mix-ins.
- Rails' interpretation of the MVC paradigm: Rails has a pretty unique take on the model-view-controller paradigm. Auto-generated code is the basis of the power of Rails, and so is ActiveRecord which completely abstracts the web developer from database access and includes associations (a mechanism to specify constraints), validations and locking
What's included in this course:
Ruby:
- Control transfer mechanisms such as coroutines, fiber objects, methods with blocks & yield
- Functional language features such as blocks, procs, lambdas and closures
- Object-oriented features such as class & instance variables, mix-ins and the self keyword
- General programming language features as exception handling, loops and variables
Rails:
- The MVC paradigm as expressed in Rails
- ActiveRecord and database abstractions including associations, validation, transactions and locking
- ActionView erb templates, and the interplay of Ruby (including blocks and yield); formTagHelper and urlHelper
- ActionPack and the controller, including ActionDespatch and ActionController
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