Advanced Rails

This is a follow up to the Intro to Rails session. In this session, we'll cover Rails conventions and "current best practices". We'll take a look at popular gems and plugins, common ActiveRecord methods, Rails' built-in Ajax support, and many other aspects of Rails all while building a real app from scratch. Finally, we'll cover how to deploy a Rails application into the wild.


After this session, you should have a good understanding of how a Rails application works, some popular tools used in the Rails community, and deployment options for Rails apps.