These are some key takeaways from the 3rd course for me based on the curriculum as well as the feedback received from the TAs for every module (aka Week).

• self-referential associations (a user following another user)
• ActionMailer: sending emails
• token generation for password reseting

These are some key takeaways from the 3rd course for me based on the curriculum as well as the feedback received from the TAs for every module (aka Week).

• to keep controllers skinny
• ActiveRecord transactions (all or none!)
• RSpec macros and shared_examples
• Capybara introduction and first feature spec

These are some key takeaways from the 3rd course for me based on the reviews i received from the TAs for every module (aka Week).

This is my beginner-TDD phase, so a lot these pertain to that in general and RSpec in specific(!), since that is what will be used in the course as the testing framework.

For a Review model which belongs_to a Video (Video has_many :reviews), there are a few ways to create a new Review associated to a Video. Two of which are:

Almost all the code enabling voting for the Posts and Comments in the PostIt app is common. Its original implementation screamed Don't Repeat Yourself, or, in short DRY.

The final lesson (Lesson 4) of Course 2 involved adding some more functionality to the PostIt app (the Reddit clone).

Almost at the end of Lesson 3, i decided to add a couple of additional features to my PostIt web application i am developing as a part of the second course at Tealeaf Academy

Here's the third quiz for people who are just getting started learning web-application development. This revisits the basics of MVC, implementing basic user-authentication and polymorphic associations.

Here's the second quiz for people who are just getting started learning web-application development. This focuses more on the resources routes and related concepts in Rails.

• Basics of Relational Databases
• ActiveRecord
• Migrations
• Associations (1:M and M:M)
• Resources