Ruby on Rails

You’ll learn to develop, structure and maintain Rails-based web applications using established coding practices and tools. Through our interactive live labs, you’ll then create a project in Ruby on Rails, generate and customise an application with scaffold, and manage data through the SQLite3 database.

REST and MVC architecture
Learn how RESTful architecture shapes modern web development and how Rails’ Model-View-Controller structure organises applications for clarity and scalability. By applying these patterns, you’ll create predictable routes for resource interaction, separate your code into clear layers for data, logic, and presentation, and produce applications that are easier to maintain, test, and scale.

Routing in Rails
Understand how to define and manage routes, generate named route methods, and take advantage of RESTful conventions to streamline navigation and app logic. You’ll learn how to set up routing rules that determine how URLs map to controllers and actions in your Rails application. You’ll also see how routing impacts application structure, enabling you to manage complex paths and user flows with consistency and clarity.

Controllers, views and models
Explore how Rails weaves together controllers, views, and models to power a web application. You’ll work through real-world scenarios, developing each layer so that logic flows seamlessly to the interface and data is handled reliably. From responsive controller actions to dynamic views and database-driven models, you’ll learn how these components connect to create applications that are both functional and maintainable.

Rails projects and scaffolding
Discover how to generate projects using Rails scaffolding tools, customise them to your business needs, and integrate forms, partials, and database features such as SQLite3 seamlessly. You’ll use scaffolding to rapidly produce functional components of your application, then learn how to refine the output to better reflect your project’s structure, business rules and user requirements. You’ll also practise using partials and form helpers to streamline your front-end components and simplify maintenance.