Building Ribbit in Rails

by Andrew Burgess23 Sep 2013

Lessons:24Length:2.4 hours

Ruby on Rails Ruby Web Apps

Course Material Requirements

This course uses an outdated version of Rails, which has some important differences from the current version. For a more up-to-date course see: Build a CMS With Rails.

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Introduction

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In this course, we’ll build a Twitter-clone, called Ribbit, from scratch, using Ruby on Rails. Following on from our popular multi-language series on Nettuts+, this time, we’ll use screencasts to teach the process!

1.Beginnings
4 lessons, 18:14

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1.1
Introduction
02:03

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1.2
Generating the App
05:31

1.3
Adding Styling
04:58

1.4
Creating the Application Template
05:42

2.User Accounts
4 lessons, 31:13

2.1
Generating the User Resource
06:09

2.2
Tweaking the User Model
09:25

2.3
Creating New Users
08:11

2.4
Showing User Profiles
07:28

3.Session Support
2 lessons, 11:24

3.1
Generating the Session Controller
03:54

3.2
Adding Logging In and Out to the UI
07:30

4.Creating Ribbits
6 lessons, 31:40

4.1
Creating the Ribbit Resource
04:54

4.2
Associating the Users and Ribbits
03:21

4.3
Creating the New Ribbit Form
04:26

4.4
Saving Ribbits
06:48

4.5
Creating the Public Ribbits Page
06:07

4.6
Counting Ribbit Characters
06:04

5.Creating Relationships
3 lessons, 19:06

5.1
Starting the Relationship
05:43

5.2
Adding the Follow Button
06:49

5.3
Wiring Up to Follow Feature
06:34

6.Finishing Up
5 lessons, 29:26

6.1
Listing all the Users
06:51

6.2
Creating the Buddies' Ribbits Page
07:56

6.3
Adding Profile Editing
09:20

6.4
Deploying to Heroku
04:48

6.5
Conclusion
00:31

Andrew 400

Hi! I'm Andrew Burgess, and I'm a connoisseur of all things programming. I'm from near Toronto, Canada, and I've been fooling around with computers for nearly my whole life, both hardware and software. Right now, I'm finishing up a computer science degree. For almost a decade now, I've been playing around with over a dozen programming languages on several different platforms, from JavaScript to Java, from Ruby to Befunge. My favourite has always been JavaScript. I've always enjoyed writing, so when I discovered Tuts+ in 2009, I was excited to start writing tutorials. Since then, I've been writing tutorials and producing screencasts for Tuts+. Right now, I'm a course instructor and I produce mostly JavaScript-related courses. Maybe you've seen Building a Web App from Scratch with Angular.js or Node.js from Scratch; that's me! I've also written a few ebooks, like Getting Good with Git, Getting Good with JavaScript, and, more recently, Backbone.js Blueprints.