This document outlines an agenda for a workshop to build and deploy a blog using Ruby on Rails. It includes introductions to Ruby and Rails, exercises to build a blog locally, and instructions for deploying the blog to Heroku. Breaks are scheduled between sections to allow time for questions and practice.

1. Build & deploy
your blog with
Ruby on Rails
+

2. Agenda
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Introduction to Ruby
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Ruby exercises (30 min)
- break -
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Introduction to Rails demo
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Build your blog (1 hr)
- break -
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Deploy live with Heroku

3. Ruby
A programming language
https://www.ruby-lang.org
Installation:
$ sudo apt-get install ruby
or install using http://rvm.io (advanced)
Let’s try:
$ irb

4. Ruby
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Learn on-line https://ruby.github.io/TryRuby/
or https://www.learnrubyonline.org/
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Cheat sheet (includes Rails):
https://goo.gl/tzcvp9 < we’ll try some of these
https://github.com/ThibaultJanBeyer/cheatsheets/blob/master/Ruby-Cheatsheet.md
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Learn step-by-step by fixing tests:
http://www.rubykoans.com

5. CODING TIME!
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Raise your hands if you have questions
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We will look together at examples where you
have doubts
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Ask your neighbour ;)

6. Ruby vs Javascript
A funny video :)
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

8. Rails
is a web framework based on Ruby
“Model-View-Controller” pattern
“Convention over configuration” principle
Many “generators” commands, console, server

9. Rails installation
gem: libraries and packages in Ruby
https://rubygems.org/
$sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
$sudo gem install rails

10. DEMO!
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I will be quick…
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After you can follow guides at your own speed
1) Basic Rails generators
2) Rails server / console
3) Routes / Controllers / Views / Models
4) Adding some features
5) Authentication

11. Bundler
gem: libraries and packages in Ruby
bundler: a package manager for gems
https://bundler.io/
$ gem install bundler
$ bundle init
or
$ bundle install
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Check in your folder the Gemfile

12. Model View Controller in Rails

13. Start building! :)
Official “getting started” guide:
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
RailsGirls guide:
http://guides.railsgirls.com/app
To learn mode in depth:
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/index.html
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

14. Heroku
A simple infrastructure provider
Sign up at: https://www.heroku.com
$ sudo snap install heroku –classic
$ heroku login
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http://guides.railsgirls.com/heroku
Configure your production database
$ heroku login
$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku run rails db:migrate

15. Heroku
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-starte
d-with-rails5
http://guides.railsgirls.com/heroku
Prerequisite: Configure your production database
$ heroku login
$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku run rails db:migrate

16. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
It makes use of the works of
Ilias Bartolini
Mateus Machado Luna