Sessions

• Preparation

  • Install ruby
  • Check your ruby installation
  • Change sublime text settings
  • [hwk] Codecademy ruby 1 & 2

• Session 1

  • Ruby as an interpreted language, irb, comments
  • Concept of a value and an expression
  • Try it in irb exercise: simple numbers and strings
  • Introduction to ruby names and variables
  • String interpolation
  • Install sinatra with ruby gems, simple sinatra example
  • Sinatra with matchers
  • [hwk] Modify example to use string operations
  • [ext] Look at tests
  • [hwk] heroku account, ssh setup

• Session 2

  • Start with basic app using a post request and a conditional
  • Show them how to deploy it, diagram explaining remotes?
  • Improving with templates and erb, redeploy
  • Boolean ops, Truthy and falsey
  • Modify their app to use more form information
  • Sinatra templates, erb
  • Deploying
  • [hwk] FOAAS? - practices templates
  • [hwk] Codecademy ruby 3 & 4

• Session 3 + Arrays, iterating

  • Reading in from a CSV file
  • Iterating in a template

• Session 4

  • sending emails?
  • Hashes

• Session 1

  • functions
  • lots of exercises with tests
  • [hwk] refactor a sinatra app

• Session 2

  • more functions

• Session 3

  • mongodb/classes

• Session 4

  • CRUD app

name can be a variable, a Constant, (an @instance variable, a @@class variable, $global) http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_names.html

adding numbers string interpolation

(methods puts)

sinatra: returns last expression in the block to the web browser, url matching, getting param from url, string interpolation deploying?

SESSION2

conditionals sinatra templates? (only showing values) form submissions? (with validations?) - example of a function?? FOAAS ?? / text-based game

SESSION3

collections & iterating providing the contents of a file? similar to sinatra3?

SESSION4

hashes - explaining params, building an api?