REST API with Ruby on Rails: The Complete Guide (Udemy.com)

Good practices followed by instructor. Its a good tutorial, but not very beginner friendly. This tutorial moves very fast, you will be pausing frequently. There is also not much explanation into any of the tools/logic being used, so you will be googling often. The instructor also changed his tooling in the middle of the course and you're left on your own to fill in the gaps it creates. Content wise, great course. Delivery and clarity could be improved. If you feel up for the challenge though, you will learn a lot.

I would like to rate this course higher the trainer really knows their subject matter and explain things in a nice and understandable manner. However the course has seemingly been abandoned with the material partially migrated from an old version to a new one. I was able to follow along the newer videos quite easily (he is using the VSCode editor) however the older videos ditinguished by using vim for editing are terribly out of date. I have found myself spending more time finding and fixing issues with the old code to make tests and examples work than actually following along with the course. The course is supposed to be a insight into API's in rails but I am spending more time learning RSpec and Rails differences from the time of publishing. I would be really happy if the course was updated with newer content and would edit my rating if that happens but I put this as a middling score as a warning for new students.

I personally think this course is more suitable to professional people who want to learn specific api part for working purpose. If you want to learn some very practical knowledge about Rails api. This is the right course for you.

Pros: Good examples of refactoring. Live examples of debugging errors. Good tutorial of developing process. Big font size in the editor, tutorial video can be opened at half of screen or less. Cons: Not enough information about developing API itself. Some code changes are not covered in the lessons. Jumping between files like on speed programming competition. Vim is not a suitable editor to teach how to code as navigation is hard to track in it. Glitching player, pause works not constantly, sometimes interface starts jumping on pause. Too many coding, too few theory and explanations, no summarizing in the end of the course. Course consists of: Tests (RSpec): 40% Authentication: 30% API: 20% Postman: 10%

I wanted to wait until I got to the end of this course to leave a review. I'm sure the teacher is very knowledgeable in his field, but I really struggled with this course. The speed at which he went through things using keyboard/VIM shortcuts was a definite hindrance to me. He made a good effort to try and explain things clearly however the thick accent resulted in poorly pronounce English words that was hard for me to follow. If you're going to take this course I would want to be seasoned in ROR TDD. I was left confused in the end.

It's the best course I watched here. The teacher is fully competent. He can explain issues in a clear way. For me, the speed of the course was a little bit too fast but I think it is an excellent set of knowledge. There are explained good practices like TDD or code refactoring. The whole course is made professionally. I have to point the teacher's English is clear and he speaks explicitly. Thanks a lot.

The lesson is good, but I kinda lost interest in section 8. Probably because the lesson became so fast and I am not that well verse to VIM. Then there is an issue with my rails. Most of the time my rails are failing and it is very annoying. But anyway, I finished the course even I am not that confident that I learned most of it. I will going to go back to this course again, once I am more comfortable with VIM and understand more what is going on. Then I can give this course a 5 Star rating..But for now, it is a four star because I think I barely learn anything due to my lack of knowledge and errors.

Pros: 1. valid code provided 2. practical project Cons: 1. too dynamic, organisation and structure of the content is kind of messy 2. lack the github oauth process to complete the whole oauth authentication. Suggestions: Because this is more about TDD(Test Driven Development), some students might find it too complex. I have several ideas that can be very useful to improve this. 1. teach the course without TDD at first and then add the TDD so students know the difference. OR write the TDD at first, then give some assignments to let students to try to pass these tests. [use the consistent structure: from test -> code] 2. the content flow can be: user registration -> standard user authentication -> Oauth authentication -> articles -> comments 3. The Oauth is not so neccessary, the stess should be on the standard authentication.

I really have enjoyed this course. I, personally, loved the TDD approach and know I'm trying to use this approach in my own developments. Although I feel the content is still small, I'm giving Sebastian 5 stars because I learned a lot just from these 5 hours of content. I'm expecting new lessons will be added in the future, with more complex API designs and real world cases. Something really valuable from this course is that Sebastian is always ready to answer your questions and point you in the correct direction. Thanks a lot.

Friendly, experienced and very helpful teacher :-) Deep knowledges in TDD and building api. Learned so much about developing TDD on every step + this course helps me in my real life project of building the api's for my app.