Build a Cryptocurrency News Site With Ruby on Rails (Udemy.com)

Pull Crypto News From An API and Build A Website With Ruby on Rails!

( 14 Reviews )

Created by: John Elder

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

Introductory Ruby on Rails
How to Build API Driven Websites With Rails
Set up a virtual Development Environment
How To Connect to Third Party APIs
How To Get Crypto Price Data
Basic CSS with Bootstrap 4.1
How To Use Instance Variables
How To Use Forms With Rails
Understand The Rails Controller
Basic Error Handling

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Overall Score : 92 / 100

Course Description

Cryptocurrencies are all the rage right now. Wouldn't it be cool to build a website that shows Crypto news automatically? That's what we'll learn in this course!
We'll build a website using Ruby on Rails and Bootstrap that connects to a free third party crypto API.
We'll be able to pull news stories, crypto price data, and all kinds of cool stuff, and output it onto the screen of our website automatically.
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is aimed at the beginner. You don't need to know Ruby, or the Rails framework, or Bootstrap...or anything at all...to take this course. I'll walk you through it all; step by step. If you already know the basics of any of those things, you'll be fine too. You'll still learn some cool things along the way!
What Tools Do You Need To Take This Course?
You don't need any special tools to take this course. We'll be using a free online development environment pre-loaded with Ruby on Rails. Or you can feel free to download rails directly to your computer (if you know how) and follow along that way.
What if you don't like the course?
I offer an unconditional, 30-day Money back Guarantee. If you aren't happy for any reason, you get your money back! No hoops to jump through at all.
What if you get stuck along the way?
I'm here answering questions everyday! Just shoot me a message and I'll personally walk you through it. Unlike a lot of instructors here, I actually care about my students success and I spend a lot of time answering questions to make sure you understand everything.
My name is John Elder and I hope to see you on the inside!Who this course is for:

This course is aimed towards absolute beginners who want to learn the to build Websites with Ruby on Rails
Anyone wanting to learn to build web apps
Anyone interested in Crypto Currencies
Anyone interested in Blockchain News

Time: 2.5h

Instructor Details

John Elder

4.6 Rating
14 Reviews

John Elder is a pioneer in Web Development who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that's been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries.
Today he teaches Web Development courses at Codemy the online code school he founded.
John graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an artsci scholar.

Reviews

4.6

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By saud maruli sihombing

I like this course, very to the point, and very focused on case studies

By Brian Hackett

Enjoyed the course! I've been looking into cryptocurrency over the last few months and now with John's course I get to see the cyrpto news and price information in my own software.
John is a great teacher. I have most all of his courses.

By Vitaly Amos

This is a good course for:
- review or revision of what you already know (or watched before) if you already studied Ruby/Ruby on Rails;
- introduction or overview of the Rails if you are a beginner;
This is not a good course for :
- beginners to learn Ruby or Ruby on Rails as there is not sufficient explanation ;
- those familiar with Rails as the stuff is pretty basic /superficial;
Overall, for me being not a beginner, this material was still a worthwhile course and the time well spent. I have not learnt much from it but it was still useful as a revision.
You will get some rewards at the end of the course that some may find useful.

By E.manish kumar

Best course to learn in a fun way and building real world dynamic website on the go

By Nevin Herring

Great course and great instructor. Doesn't make you feel like you have to have a CS degree or have to already be a programmer to take the class. Good class pace. All lines of code are appropriately explained. So there is more explanation to complex things such as the controllers and less explanation on simpler things such as html code. I have some rails experience so this was a great class to learn API calls and some form validation. Thanks for the great class!

By Michael Ballard

I enjoyed this course. Its straight to the point and teaches you how to grab info from a public api, parse it and put it onto a page in less than 2 hrs.

By Diwakar

Awesome :)

By Dominic D

I'm only 50% through the course and we've already created the app structure, styled with Bootstrap and pulled in data of crypto news. I would have paid for just that.
Next we're going to pull in price data and add search functionality. I used to look at short courses and think how can you do anything in that time. Easy, John keeps all the videos short and sweet, everything is lean and to the point.
The course uses cloud 9 ide which runs rails 4.2. It should run if you're using Rails 5.x on a Mac. I had a bit of trouble with the api with my Rails 5 install on Windows 10 something to do with ssl certificates - but I had a c9 account which I ended up using just to do the course.

By Pablo Mora

Great course! Learned a lot about crypto and building web applications with RoR. However I felt dissapointed on the fact that Heroku web app was installed in one of the first videos but was never used.I really wanted to launch the website on this occassion but well I'll guess I'll have to figure it out on my own.

By Benedikt Rudolf

a little fast - but cool and hands on

By Jeremy Hill

I really enjoyed this course. I will be purchasing more courses from this instructor (John Elder). He's straight to the point and we get the information/knowledge very quickly. He seems to actually care about his students' success which is a big plus for me.
I'm excited to see what he has us learning next!

By Bl4ck D0g