railsgirls/guides.railsgirls.com

Features

• Static Site Generators - Functions as a static site generator that converts Markdown content and templates into pre-rendered HTML pages.
• Beginner Programming Guides - Provides step-by-step tutorials and instructional metaphors specifically designed for individuals new to programming.
• Workshop Facilitation Resources - Provides a structured framework and instructional materials for organizing technical workshops and coaching beginners.
• Markdown-Based Content Authoring - Authors guides and tutorials as structured plain text files using Markdown for version control and collaborative editing.
• CRUD Operations - Guides users through implementing the full lifecycle of creating, reading, updating, and deleting database records.
• Data Models - Teaches how to define the structure of data entities and their attributes to represent application information.
• Database Migrations - Teaches how to use versioned schema changes to maintain data consistency across application versions.
• Web Application Deployment - Guides users through the full lifecycle of deploying Ruby on Rails web applications to cloud environments.
• Capability Guides - Walks users through implementing core web features such as user authentication, image uploads, and admin panels.
• Programming Fundamentals - Teaches fundamental programming concepts including variable assignment and basic arithmetic.
• Technical Onboarding Programs - Provides a structured process for coordinating the initial installation of software and development environments for learners.
• Pedagogical Guidance - Offers pedagogical tips and conceptual models to help coaches deliver technical instruction effectively.
• Technical Workshop Organization - Provides a structured framework and resources for organizing community-led programming workshops.
• Web Application Tutorials - Provides a structured, step-by-step workflow to guide beginners through building a complete web application.
• Web Development Guides - Provides comprehensive instructional guides on environment setup, language learning, and building web applications.
• Control Flow Basics - Provides instructional content on using if-statements and loops to control program execution.
• Object-Oriented Modeling - Explains how to use methods and classes to organize reusable logic using object-oriented principles.
• Application Testing Workflows - Teaches a comprehensive strategy for writing and executing automated test suites to ensure stability.
• Server-Side Template Rendering - Shows how to embed logic within HTML files to generate dynamic webpages that change based on data.
• Application Deployment - Teaches beginners how to deploy a single web application from a local project to a public URL.
• Ruby on Rails Frameworks - Offers a complete learning resource for constructing web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework.
• Learning Resources - Offers a collection of step-by-step tutorials for teaching beginners how to build applications with Ruby on Rails.
• Attribute Validations - Instructs on how to ensure required attributes are present and valid before saving to the database.
• Deployment and Hosting - Demonstrates how to create remote application instances and push source code to platforms like Heroku.
• Database Configuration - Instructs on adapting database settings for compatibility with cloud-hosted relational databases.
• Relationship Validations - Teaches how to verify that database relationships between models are correctly defined.
• Automated Test Execution - Teaches how to run automated test suites during the build process to ensure stability before deployment.
• Deployment Automation - Instructs learners on automating the process of pushing code and documentation to hosting environments.
• Local Version Control Basics - Guides beginners on tracking modified files and recording a local version history.
• Remote Repository Publishing - Teaches learners how to securely upload their locally saved project versions to a remote repository.
• Application Updaters - Provides a workflow for pushing changes to a remote server to update the live version of an application.
• Curated Learning Resources - Aggregates a collection of curated books, courses, and tutorials to help users advance their technical skills.
• Deployment Tutorials - Offers educational guides on pushing code to version control and hosting applications on cloud platforms.
• Communities and Mentorship - Offers strategies for building support circles and finding mentors to foster community among learners.
• Web Development Tutorials - Ships a documented series of exercises covering basic programming, routing, database management, and deployment.
• Form Development Guides - Teaches how to generate input fields and submission logic to collect and modify user data.
• Community Management & Engagement - Suggests methods for maintaining participant involvement through follow-up meetups and online community groups.
• Event Planning - Provides structured timelines and program templates for organizing multi-day technology events.
• Project Bootstrapping Guides - Guides users through generating a foundational project structure and starting a local development server.
• Project Ideas - Provides strategies and practical prompts to help learners identify real-world problems for their projects.
• Security Implementation Guides - Provides step-by-step educational guides for implementing security access controls and user authentication flows.
• Volunteer Recruitment - Offers outreach templates and guidelines for recruiting local developers to serve as technical mentors.
• Testing Best Practices - Offers curated guidelines and patterns for ensuring application quality through automated testing.
• Venue Logistics - Define requirements for physical venues, including internet capacity and equipment for small-group learning.
• Workshop Participant Management - Provides frameworks for screening applicants and grouping participants by experience level for community workshops.
• Programming Simulations - Provide a step-by-step exercise that introduces core concepts like arrays and loops by building a simulation.
• User-Based Access Restrictions - Instructs on how to validate user permissions to restrict access to specific application features.
• User Authentication Systems - Teaches how to integrate frameworks and mechanisms for verifying user identity and managing account access.
• Educational Test Suites - Teaches the implementation of automated tests using test-driven practices to ensure stability.
• Test Utilities & Assertions - Provides concise assertion patterns to simplify the verification of application functionality.
• Test-Driven Development Resources - Provides structured instructional exercises on the process of writing tests before implementing functional code.
• Behavior-Driven Testing - Teaches how to define expected application behavior using descriptive syntax to verify features.
• Form Handling - Teaches how to extract user data from request parameters and process it on the server.
• Navigation Bars - Provides instructions for building a persistent site-wide navigation bar with primary links.
• Data Model Permissions - Guides the implementation of read-only access for non-administrative users on specific data models.
• Route-to-Callback Mapping - Instructs how to map URL patterns to specific controller actions to handle incoming web requests.
• CRUD Generators - Teaches how to automatically generate models, views, and controllers for data entity management.
• HTTP Redirects - Explains how to send responses that instruct the browser to navigate to a different URL.
• Rendering and Templating - Instructs on generating dynamic HTML pages using embedded logic and shared layouts.
• Request Parameter Filtering - Demonstrates how to use parameter whitelisting to protect applications from injection attacks.
• HTTP Routing - Provides guidance on mapping URL paths to handlers based on the requested HTTP verb.
• Application Route Definitions - Instructs on mapping URI paths and HTTP methods to specific controller actions.
• URL Routing - Guides the configuration of routing files to link web addresses to specific controller actions.
• View and Controller Implementation - Teaches how to define new view files and associate them with controllers to render content.

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