Learn Rails by Building Instagram (2019, Rails 6)

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This course is out of date

I can't recommend you follow this for new Rails 7 apps.

If you'd like you can take this course, but it is severely out of date and I have no plans to update this version of the course to Rails 7 content. It uses old behavior that are no longer best practices.

I am recording an updated version, that will be available for purchase soon.

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Learn Rails by Building Instagram (2019, Rails 6)

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Want to learn the basics of the Ruby on Rails framework? In this course, we will build Railsgram, which is a simplified version of Instagram. We will go from rails new all the way to deploying to production.

Get it today and kickstart your Ruby on Rails journey.

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Introduction

What is Ruby on Rails?

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Why Rails?

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Initial Setup Requirements / START HERE

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Troubleshooting Checklist

What are we Building?

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Getting Started

Initial project setup for our application that you will likely likely be able to apply to other projects you do.

Running rails new

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Installing Bootstrap with Webpacker

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Setting up our Basic Navbar

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Adding Users

Users is a central piece of our application. Without users, no one can upload or see images from people they follow. In this section we'll add users.

Installing Devise / Generating User model

Updating our Navbar with working links

Extending the User Edit page

Adding Flash Messages

Adding User Profiles

ActiveStorage Introduction

Installing ActiveStorage / Adding Avatars to Users

Posts

Adding Posts to our Application.

Creating Post Model and Controller

Adding Validations

Adding Post Feed (Post index)

Adding Posts to Profile / Post Deletion

Adding Likes to Posts

Post Comments

Starting to add Post Comments

Installing Stimulus.js & Finishing Basic Comments

Paginating Comments for infinite scroll (custom pagination with Stimulus)

ActionCable Introduction / Realtime Comments

Comment Fixes / Touchups

Allow Adding Comment on Post Creation

User Following

Creating our Follow model

Wiring up Following

Only See Posts From People You Follow

Preparing for Production / Deployment

Polishing User Profile

Polishing User Edit Page & Devise Error Message Helper

Polishing Signup and Login Pages

Polishing Forgot Password and Welcome Page

Adding Local Time

Deploying to Hatchbox

Conclusion / Thank You

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Source Code

About the Author

My name is Andrea Fomera, I'm currently a Rails Developer at Podia. I've been coding with Ruby on Rails since 2014, and started my professional career in 2016.

I enjoy helping people and sharing what I know. I made this course because it's one of the courses I wish I would have had when I was starting out.

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FAQs

Who is this course for?

I started this course with the goal of making the course I wish I had when I started, so if you're new to Ruby on Rails, or interested in getting started my hope is this will be a great course for you to pick up and use as a resource.

I have a major pet peeve with tutorials going through fruit examples or foobar/foobaz, so I tried to pick an example with features that actual real-world applications would need.

Disclaimer: This happens to be my first course, so I will likely make mistakes, or get fumbled up talking and not make sense.

How long will I have access to the course?

You'll have access to this version of the course for life!

What if I don't like it?

If you aren't finding any use out of the course or it doesn't live up to your expectations, I'll provide a full refund within 14 days from purchase as long as you provide me with feedback for how I can improve the course.

I can't afford this course / Can't buy the course in my country

I've been there, and want to help. I care more about sharing what I know than making profit. Send me a Twitter DM, and we can work something out.

What do I need to know?

You'll ideally have some basic knowledge of HTML/CSS, as we will generally move quickly with that, and focus on Ruby on Rails.

If you've looked at the Ruby basics you'll be a leg up. You can try following along and just doing what you see but I highly recommend you spend some time and read up on Ruby before trying to build a Rails app.

Testimonials

It's hard to find a "complete" Rails course like yours. And the transition away from CoffeeScript into ES6?, Webpack, yarn… makes it harder to get an up-to-date course, packed with ActionCable, ActiveStorage, ActionText, etc.

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