Class 4: Getting started with Rails

Held: Monday, 30 January 2017

We start thinking about Rails and its infrastructure.

Preliminaries

Overview

• Model/View/Controller
• An introduction to Rails
• {“Guest lecture”=>”Design”}

Related Pages

• Eboard 4 (Source)

• Reading:

Updates

News / Etc.

• Today we start on Rails.
• We will be exploring Rails all of this week and some of next week. (I think we need more time than I had originally planned.)
• We will have a visitor for the second half of class today. Shu-Yang Lin, http://shuyanglin.com/. She will discuss design issues and more.
• I’m still working on the course Web site.

Upcoming Work

• Read SaasBook, Chapter 2 (Thursday)
• Do The introduction to Rails from SaasBook (starts in class Thursday; continues through next week)

Good things to do

Academic

• Rosenfield symposium, this week. (Lots of different events)

Peer

• ???