Schedule

Session 1 – Introduction to Ruby – Jeremy

• IRB
• Textmate?

Session 2 – Introduction to Rails – Eric

• Application Flow
• Framework vs. Language
• Pros and Cons
• Sites using Rails
• MVC
• Routes
• Generators

Session 3 – Behavior Driven Development – Ben

• ?

Session 4 – Application Introduction – David

• Show a flow chart of the application.
• Demonstrate scaffolding (movies)
• Explain static variables in classes (genres)
• A generic flow chart for Rails to respond to a request (web server to dispatcher to routes to controller to models to views)
• The purpose of the application with a short demonstration
• A chart to show the basic page flow for the app
• An introduction to the script directory
• script/generate
• Generate Movies
• Areas Affected
• Genres of Movies
• More resources

Session 5 – Enhancing the UI – Brad

• Movie sorting, searching & filtering
• Demonstrate named_scope
• ?

Session 6 – User Management & Authentication – Jeremy

• Demonstrate basic authentication
• Create your own simple authentication system
• ?

Session 7 – Borrowers and Lenders – Eric

• Create borrower / lender relations
• Generate mailer for invitations
• Add MD5 token to users for invitations
• View borrowers and lenders with filters

Session 8 – Movie Lending & Scheduling – David

• Create history log for movies and add to view
• Create the lending and returning processes
• Demonstrate using AJAX if possible
• ?

Session 9 – Movie Reviews & Ratings – Eric

• Add a plugin ‘acts_as_reviewable’
• Consume a web service (Box Office Top 5)
• Demonstrate AJAX if possible

Session 10 – Deployment – Jeremy

• Discuss different hosting options
• Discuss different server types (Passenger, Mongrel, Nginx, etc)
• Explain the prejudice against Rails prior to Passenger (difficult to deploy)
• Deploy application to Heroku
• Deploy application to Passenger
• ?