Additional Rails Skills

This repository is to be used as the base for Rails lessons 8, 9, 10, and 11. The lesson information is below.

Lesson 8
Assignment 8a
Assignment 8b
Assignment 8c
Assignment 8d
Lesson 9
Assignment 9
Assignment 10
Lesson 11
Assignment 11

Lesson 8 Learning Objectives (week 9)

• Understanding the Model/View/Controller Approach for aeb application frameworks
• Understand the flow of a web request coming Into Rails
• Acquire basic skills with the Ruby debugger in Rails
• Learn how to handle exceptions that may be thrown by Rails functions
• Learn how to vaildate user input
• Handle user input errors

Lesson 9 Learning Objectives (week 10)

• Understand why automated testing is important
• Learn to generate random data for use in testing
• Acquire familiarity with Rspec automated tests
• Write model and request tests using Rspec

Lesson 10 Learning Objectives (week 11)

• Practice all Rails skills learned to this point
• Understand the dynamic population of dropdown lists in ERB files
• Understand foreign keys and foreign key exceptions
• Learn how to create factories for objects that have assocations through foreign keys

Assignment 11 Learning Objectives (week 12)

• Learn the use of the Bootstrap CSS styling framework
• Learn how to integrate Bootstrap with Rails
• Understand basic Bootstrap styles for navbars, cards, responsive containers, etfc.
• Practice the use of these styles
• Learn about modal windows
• Use images within a Rails application
• Use custom fonts within a Rails application