Advanced Topics in Ruby on Rails

This repo will hold weekly class slides and documents for the Autumn 2014 Advanced Topics in Ruby on Rails at the University of Washington

Schedule

Week 1: Rails Essentials

• Class intro
• Code review of our app
• Auth with has_secure_password

Week 2: Authentication via OAuth

• Using 3rd party auth

Week 3: 3rd Party Services & Email

• Integrating with 3rd party services
• Sending emails

Week 4: Building APIs

• JSON
• RailsAPI
• Jbuilder

Week 5: Background Jobs

• ActiveJob
• DelayedJob
• Queueing

Week 6: Performance and Optimization

• Caching
• Databases

Week 7: Javascript

• Turbolinks
• Angular/Ember/Etc...

Week 8: Deploying and Maintaining

• Capistrano/Chef
• Vagrant/Docker

Week 9: Alternative Frameworks

• Sinatra
• Rack
• Lotus

Week 10: Projects due

• Show off projects
• What's next?