Week 18: Rails Passion Course

1. Rails Example Application -Depot Application (Week 18)
2. 5536_rails_depot_app.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /rails_depot_app/index.html to proceed) (5/31/09: Downloaded)
3. Presentation - there is no presentation
4. Resources
   o Rails code examples site
   + Ruby on Rails Open Source Projects website from wiki.rubyonrails.com
   + Top 29 Ruby on Rails Demos Example Code Samples
   + Dzone Snippets rubyonrails
   o Examples
   + Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials from digitialmediaminute.com
   + Rails Petstore email

o Online lab document/ Change Log (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file) (66 pages)
o Homework (Yes, We have Homework)

Week 17: Rails Passion Course

1. Deployment (Week 17) (Topics covered: Deployment)
2. 5538_rails_deploy.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /rails_deploy/index.html to proceed)
3. Resources: Deploying on GlassFish
   + GlassFish v2 and JRuby powering WorldcChange Comm (April 2008)
   + JRuby-on-Rails standalone and shared WARs in Glassfish screencast by Arun Gupta (Oct. 2007)
   + JRuby on Rails Rewrite of mediacast.sun.com launched (Jan. 2008)
   + Deploying JRuby applications with Java Web start article from infoq.com (March, 2008)
   + Rails and Java EE integration - Servlet co-bindled and invoked from Rails blog by Arun Gupta (April, 2008)
   + Rails and Java EE integration - Native Rails on GlassFish v3 blog by Arun Gupta (April 2008)
   o Warbler
   + Rails and Java EE integration - Warbler instead of Goldspike blog by Arun Gupta (April, 2008)
   + Wabler, A Little Birdie To Introduce Your Rails App to Java blog by Nick Sieger (Sep. 2007)
   + Warbler documentation from caldersphere.rubyforge.org
   o Goldspike
   + Goldspike homesite
   o JDBC
   + JDBC Connection Pooling for Rails on GlassFish blog by lkai Lan (Aug. 2008)
   o Presentations
   + Enterprise Ruby with JRuby on Rails presentation by Naoto Takai
4. Presentation: PDF: 1 slide per page (OR) OpenOffice file (5 pages) (5/31/09: Read)
5. Online lab/Change Log document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file) (5/31/09: Did most of it/No Glassfish/Had problems with Glassfish)
6. 5/31/09: No Homework

Week 16: Rails Passion Course

1. Ajax (Week 16) (Topics covered: Ajax/JavaScript libraries in Rails, PrototypeHelper, ScriptaculousHelper, JavaScriptMacrosHelper, JavaScript related utility methods, Ruby JavaScript template)
2. 5532_rails_ajax.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /rails_ajax/index.html to proceed) (5/31/09: Downloaded)
3. Resources
   o ActionView::Helpers::PrototypeHelper API from api.rubyonrails.org
   o ActionView::Helpers::ScriptaculousHelper API from api.rubyonrails.org
   o ActionView::Helpers::JavaScriptHelper API from api.rubyonrails.org
   o ActionView::Helpers::JavaScriptMacrosHelper from api.rubyonrails.org
   o Using Ajax With Ruby on Rails tutorial by Brian Leonard and Natalie Jeremy
   o jMaki on Rails blog by Arun Gupta (March, 2008)
4. Homework ("To Be Provided") (5/31/09: None Yet)
5. Presentation: PDF: 1 slide per page (OR) OpenOffice file (56 pages) (5/31/09: Scanned)
6. Online lab/Change Log document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file) (28 pages) (5/31/09: Read/No Homework)
   

Week 15: Rails Passion Course

1. Testing & RSpec (Week 15) (Topics to be covered: Overview of Rails testing, Unit testing, Functional testing, Integration testing)
2. 5535_rails_testing.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /rails_testing/index.html to proceed) (5/25/09: Downloaded)
3. Resources
   o Tutorials
   + About "A Guide to Testing the Rails" article from manuals.rubyonrails.com
   + Developing a Rails model using BDD + RSpec tutorial by Luke Redpath (8/06)
   o NetBeans tutorials
   + Ruby Testing NetBeans tutorial from wiki.netbeans.org
   + Screencast: RSpec and NetBeans by Nick Sieger (Feb. 2008)
   + Test-Driven Rails Development tutorial by Brian Leonard and Neth Stearns from netbeans.org (Dec. 2007)
   + Graphic guide to Rails on NetBeans: RSpec and Autotest from scratch tutorial (Nov. 2007)
   o References
   + Assert methods from ruby-doc.org
4. Presentation: PDF: 1 slide per page OR OpenOffice file (28 pages) (5/25/09: Read)
   

o Online lab document/Change Log (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
o Homework (5/31/09: Finally finished it)

Week 14: Rails Passion Course

1. REST Support (Week 14) (Topics to be covered: What is REST?, REST support in Rails, Format of the response via response_to)
2. 5534_rails_rest.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /rails_rest/index.html to proceed) (5/25/09: Downloaded)
3. Resources
   o Tutorials
   + Designing RESTful Rails Applications screencast by Obie Fernandez from infoq.com (July, 2008)
   + Web Services, Rails-style blog by Jamis
   + Rails 1.2: REST admiration, HTTP lovefest, and UTF-8 celebrations article (Jan. 2007)
   + Rapid RESTful Rails Apps article by Myles Eftos (Feb. 2008)
   + Introduction to AWS (Amazon Web Services) for Ruby Developers from developer.amazon.com
   o API
   + ActionController::Resources from api.rubyonrails.org
   o Client
   + Ruby REST client
4. Online lab document/Change Log (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file) (5/25/09: done)
5. Presentation: PDF: 1 slide per page OR OpenOffice file (24 pages) (5/25/09: Read)
6. Homework 14 (5/25/09: Done/Emailed to Sun)
   

Week 13: Rails Passion Course

1. Action View Helpers (Week 13) (Topics to be covered: Types of ActionView Helpers, FormHelper's, FormTagHelper's)
2. 5533_rails_viewhelpers.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /rails_viewhelpers/index.html to proceed) (5/24/09: Downloaded)
3. Resources
   o ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper API from api.rubyonrails.org
   o ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper API from api.rubyonrails.org
4. Lab and homework/Change Log (1 page) (5/24/09: Read)
5. Online lab/Change Log document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file) (5/24/09: Read)
6. Presentation:PDF: 1 slide per page OR OpenOffice file (23 pages) (5/24/09: Read)
7. Pre-class reading material (Action view helper tutorial) (11 pages) (5/24/09: Read)
8. Monday: Starting HW13.
9. Started up Netbeans, build databases, and migrated the database.
10. Added "Gender" field to Student table.
11. Homework 13 (5/25/09: Emailed)
    

Week 12: Rails Passion Course

1. Action View Basics (Week 12) (Topics to be covered: Types of templates, ERb template, Builder template, JavaScriptGenerator template, Using sub-templates, Layouts, Partials)
2. 5531_rails_actionview.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /rails_actionview/index.html to proceed) (5/24/09: Downloaded)
3. Resources
   o ActionView::Base API from api.rubyonrails.org
   o ActionView::Partials API from railsbrain.com
4. Pre-class reading material (Action view tutorial) (5/24/09: Scanned it)
5. Presentation: PDF: 1 slide per page OR OpenOffice file (29 pages) (5/24/09: Read)
6. Online lab document/Change Log (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file) (5/24/09: Done)
7. Homework (Combine the 2 partials into one file and use it in edit and new .html.erb files) (5/24/09: Created draft)
   

May 15, 2009 Steps

1. cucumber.bat features 2>&1 |tee o_ca
2. ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/notahat/machinist.git
3. gem install notahat-machinist