One-stop Ruby on Rails: Build Web Applications from Scratch (Udemy.com)

Master Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, APIs, and other web technologies by building Etsy, Yelp, and Craigslist from scratch.

( 134 Reviews )

Created by: Alex Yang

Produced in 2015

What you will learn

Prototype any MVP for a web app
Install and setup Ruby on Rails
Create new web applications in Ruby on Rails and launch it live on the web
Style websites with front-end tools like CSS, Javascript, and Bootstrap
Scrape data from any website and store it in a database
Write Ruby scripts to automate tasks
Parse, clean, and analyze data
Read technical documentation including Ruby gems and web tools
Master Github and Heroku
Learn to work and code in the command line
Add Google Maps integration with API
Work within the Rails console to manipulate data
Add online payments and bank transfers using the Stripe API
Host images with Amazon S3 or Dropbox and embed images on any site
Implement multiple types of user accounts and login

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Overall Score : 80 / 100

Course Description

Project based learning is the most effective type of learning. Whether you're learning to code to become a web developer, or just looking to prototype your MVP, we believe working on projects is the most effective way to learn. Instead of being taught theory, you'll learn by building working applications. You understand the big picture concepts before filling in the details. You learn to build apps the way developers do one feature at a time. Most people feel demotivated when they take traditional programming classes, but with our course, you'll make rapid progress on your projects so you always stay engaged. Along the way, you learn in-demand tech skills through practice and solving problems with available resources, not through brute memorization. Our course walks you through building four comprehensive web applications you will launch live on the web including: 1) A restaurant review site for people to browse and rate local eateries: Admin users can add new restaurants while signed in users can leave star ratings with a review. Anyone can search through the listings index for specific restaurants. 2) A two-sided marketplace for buyers and sellers: Sellers will be able to upload listings with images, manage their inventory through a dashboard, and charge credit cards with the Stripe API. You'll learn how to take a small percentage cut of each transaction and transfer payments to your sellers. 3) A web scraper to collect data: Access a webpage's HTML and identify proper selectors for parsing through data. Write a script in the Ruby programming language to scrape Wikipedia and Airbnb and export the information into a database. 4) Apartment Rental Site like Craigslist: Gather data through an API and use that data to build a custom Ruby on Rails web app. You'll write a script in the Ruby programming language to collect and process the data you receive, then save the information to a database, and build a front-end interface for users to interact with it. By the end of the course, you'll have learned to automate the data collection process and have an app that's live on Heroku. 5) Bonus Feature videos: Learn how to code your site in multiple lanugages, add social media features, and more with a series of bonus features to feature customize your app.
Web development topics covered:

Ruby on Rails
HTML and CSS
jQuery
JSON
Bootstrap
Coffeescript
Stripe API
Google Maps API
Git and Github
Heroku

Web scraping topics covered:

Data scraping
SQlite
CSV databases
Data analysis
Data scraping
Data cleaning
Parsing data files
CSV databases
Script automation

By the end of this course, your web applications will be ready for real users and you can start collecting payments through Stripe immediately. You'll have the skills, experience, and portfolio to get a job as a web developer or build out any idea of your own. [Note: This is the BaseRails bundler pack of four projects included in this one course. You may start with any project as each course is self-contained.] Who this course is for:

This course is for entreprenurial-minded people who want to learn to build web applications for their ideas.
This course is for people who want to learn Ruby on Rails for building web applications.
This course is for data enthusiasts who want a general introduction into using Ruby and APIs to scrape data on the web and build a web application around real time data.
This course is for hackers who want to learn to prototype MVPs of any idea quickly and effectively.
This course is for anyone working in technology who wants to know how products are built.
This course is for people who want a project-based approach to learning how to code.
This course is for people who want to code an online marketplace, an apartment rental site, or a reviews site.
This course in NOT for you if you want to become a software engineer and learn programming syntax and theory from the ground up.

Time: 18.5h

Instructor Details

Alex Yang

4.0 Rating
134 Reviews

Alex graduated from Harvard with a degree in Applied Math and spent two years at the Boston Consulting Group in New York.

He was always interested in the tech space and eventually decided to quit his job to become an entrepreneur. He taught himself to code to prototype his business ideas, but the process of wading through coding exercises, one-off videos, and programming books was slow and ineffective.

He created this course to save others the time and hassle he went through when learning to build web apps. Currently, he works on BaseRails and develops curriculum for Codecademy to teach little kids how to program.

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By Agit Akyol on 7/5/2019

Since I've studied Mechanical Engineering and MBA, I have taken hundreds of courses from hundreds of different instructors in my education history. I can easily say Alex Yang is one of the best instructor I have ever seen. His approach is to teach as much information as possible during the course. He is constantly emphasizing on where and what you should focus on while he is building the Web Apps. His language is pretty simplificative and understandable. The sentences are created perfectly well. You can find yourself engaged the course after a few seconds.
The course covers a lot of important information and real life examples. This is my third course on Udemy and it has the longest duration. Basically, you pay for one course but take more than 3 courses in one, because it has three 3 main projects as well as other special sections. There is a lot of value in this course, so I highly recommend it and suggest you to watch every second carefully!

By Neuro Divergent on 5/19/2019

This course is terribly outdated, and despite trying very hard to look for current solutions, I had no choice but to give up. Until the course gets updated or they throw up a proper warning that it's outdated, look for something else.

By Carl Joseph DeMarco on 3/7/2019

This course blows. Only in the second video and already there're are problems with the set up. It hasn't been updated in 4 years and judging by recent student reviews the instructor's bailed. My own fault I suppose for not checking on update and reading more reviews, but for the price I got it at I thought it was worth a try. It wasn't. Switching to another course on the same thing updated a couple months ago. THIS COURSE SHOULD BE REMOVED. IT'S UNCONSCIOUNABLE THAT THE INSTRUCTOR IS STILL MAKING MONEY ON THIS.

By Othniel Tucker on 2/9/2019

It is a good match

By Venkat Krishnam on 11/26/2018

Step by step and really helpful. Only addition may be a little time in the video to do the steps alongside the course video.

By Gary McCusker on 9/13/2018

not sure

By patrick apgar on 7/16/2018

The course is great!

By John Kounelias on 7/16/2018

I have tried multiple rail tutorials so far, and have found NOTHING good. He is the best!

By Christopher Stair on 5/26/2018

The versions of everything is out of date and there has been no updates to the course to support this issue. For example, Heroku install is completely different. Bootstrap is on a completely new version. These small differences make a big change which is annoying to troubleshoot and fix from the students side because the video content is not lining up with the code we're working with.

By Robin Bastien on 5/15/2018

So far so good

By Barry Regan on 4/21/2018

only issue is that the course is outdated re some versions/3rd party services/gems. It could be updated relatively easily and would make a huge difference.

By Ellen K on 11/23/2017

No one's been paying attention to the updates. Would be good in 2014 but GitHub's not updated and they don't explain what they are doing so I don't know what to Google. First ran into a problem with the image. I'm not sure what's giving the error.