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This course is out of date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If you'd like you can take this course, but it is severely out of date and I have no plans to update this version of the course to Rails 7 content.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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Contents

Introduction

What is Ruby on Rails?
    Preview
    Why Rails?
      Preview
      Initial Setup Requirements / START HERE
        Preview
        Troubleshooting Checklist
          What are we Building?
          • 2 mins
          • 42.2 MB
          Preview

          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
          • 4 mins
          • 67.4 MB
          Preview
          Installing Bootstrap with Webpacker
          • 5 mins
          • 66.9 MB
          Preview
          Setting up our Basic Navbar
          • 6 mins
          • 106 MB
          Preview

          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
          • 9 mins
          • 156 MB
          Updating our Navbar with working links
          • 4 mins
          • 48.9 MB
          Extending the User Edit page
          • 4 mins
          • 61.8 MB
          Adding Flash Messages
          • 6 mins
          • 68 MB
          Adding User Profiles
          • 7 mins
          • 90.5 MB

          ActiveStorage Introduction

          Installing ActiveStorage / Adding Avatars to Users
          • 12 mins
          • 211 MB

          Posts

          Adding Posts to our Application.
          Creating Post Model and Controller
          • 12 mins
          • 184 MB
          Adding Validations
          • 5 mins
          • 72.5 MB
          Adding Post Feed (Post index)
          • 8 mins
          • 130 MB
          Adding Posts to Profile / Post Deletion
          • 15 mins
          • 261 MB
          Adding Likes to Posts
          • 17 mins
          • 331 MB

          Post Comments

          Starting to add Post Comments
          • 17 mins
          • 269 MB
          Installing Stimulus.js & Finishing Basic Comments
          • 13 mins
          • 240 MB
          Paginating Comments for infinite scroll (custom pagination with Stimulus)
          • 15 mins
          • 297 MB
          ActionCable Introduction / Realtime Comments
          • 25 mins
          • 575 MB
          Comment Fixes / Touchups
          • 6 mins
          • 136 MB
          Allow Adding Comment on Post Creation
          • 4 mins
          • 61.5 MB

          User Following

          Creating our Follow model
          • 7 mins
          • 159 MB
          Wiring up Following
          • 9 mins
          • 205 MB
          Only See Posts From People You Follow
          • 4 mins
          • 68 MB

          Preparing for Production / Deployment

          Polishing User Profile
          • 5 mins
          • 113 MB
          Polishing User Edit Page & Devise Error Message Helper
          • 10 mins
          • 216 MB
          Polishing Signup and Login Pages
          • 5 mins
          • 104 MB
          Polishing Forgot Password and Welcome Page
          • 7 mins
          • 132 MB
          Adding Local Time
          • 2 mins
          • 43.5 MB
          Deploying to Hatchbox
          • 19 mins
          • 333 MB

          Conclusion / Thank You

          Thank You!
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              Source Code
              • 59.2 MB

              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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