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Build A Weather App With Ruby On Rails (Udemy.com)

How To Use An API To Get Air Quality Ozone Weather Data With Ruby On Rails

4.4

31 reviews

Created by: John Elder

Last updated November 2023

What you will learn

Build Web Apps With Ruby On Rails
Build Your Own Air Quality Monitoring Website
Download and Install Ruby on Rails
Download and Install Git Bash Terminal
Understand Basic Terminal Commands
Push Code To Github
Host Web Apps On Heroku
Understand the Bootstrap CSS Framework
Connect To a 3rd Party API
Understand Basic Ruby Code

How it compares

Against the other 81 rated Udemy courses in Ruby on Rails on CourseDuck:

Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 59% of them
Reviews31#75 of 82 by number of reviews
Length2.3 hoursshorter than 82% of them
Last updatedNovember 2023more recently than 67% of them

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Overall Score : 88 / 100

Course Description

Ruby on Rails can seem overwhelming at first, but it doesn't have to be! In this course I'll walk you through it step by step and you'll be building your first web app in MINUTES. You'll be amazed how quick and easy it is to create very professional looking websites, even if you have no programming or web design experience at all.
Watch over my shoulder as I build a cool Ozone Air Quality Monitoring Weather app step by step right in front of you. You'll follow along and build your own copy. By the time we're finished, you'll have a solid understanding of Ruby on Rails and how to use it to build awesome web apps.
This course is aimed at the absolute beginner, you don't need any coding experience at all!

The course contains 28 videos and is just over 2 hours long. Watch the videos at your own pace, and post questions along the way if you get stuck. You don't need any special knowledge or software to take this course, though any experience with HTML or CSS is a plus. You don't even need to know the Ruby programming language. I'll walk you through EVERYTHING.
Ruby on Rails is a great web development tool and learning it has never been this easy.
What We'll Build...
We'll build a cool Ozone Air Quality Monitoring Weather app that pulls Ozone Air Quality weather data from a third party government API.
You'll learn how to use the free API in your app throughout the course.
We'll style the website using the popular Bootstrap CSS framework (I'll show you how to use it!)
This is a great course for someone starting out. You'll learn all kinds of skills that will help you build just about any kind of website or web app that you like.

Sign up today and I'll see you on the inside!
-John Elder

Who this course is for:

This course is aimed towards absolute beginners who want to learn Ruby On Rails for Web Development
Anyone wanting to learn to build web apps

Beginner Level

Time: 2.3h

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Instructor Details

John Elder

4.4 Rating
31 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.