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It's a silly introduction to building serious web applications with Ruby on Rails.

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Keep the humans out! Adding authentication to our Rails app with Devise.
https://rubycat.farm/2020/05/10/keep-the-humans-out/

Keep the humans out Keep the humans out! Adding authentication to our Rails app with Devise.

Cats don't all read very well, so let's add some pictures. An introduction to Active Storage.
https://rubycat.farm/2020/05/09/id-like-some-pictures-please/

I’d like some pictures, please An introduction to Rails' Active Storage.

Sending e-mail in Rails so boss cat George knows when we add new vegetables.
https://rubycat.farm/2020/05/02/sending-e-mail-in-rails/

Sending e-mail in Rails We’ll start sending e-mails from Rails using ActionMailer so that boss cat George knows whenever we add a new vegetable.

Let's explore ActiveRecord by creating, updating, and deleting vegetables.

https://rubycat.farm/2020/04/19/models-in-rails-vegetables-and-the-database/

Models in Rails: Vegetables and the Database Models in Rails: Vegetables and the Database. An introduction to using ActiveRecord by exploring storing vegetables.

So now that we've installed Rails and generated our application, let's make it actually do something. I'd also recommend get introduced to Git first so we can save our place as we go along. Before starting this lesson, commit the generated Rails app so you can see what changes. We're going to use a bit of Rails magic to generate a lot of code without actually writing a line ourselves, and then we'll just look at what it does. [ 897 more words ]
https://rubycat.farm/2020/04/05/rails-scaffolding-for-fun-and-maybe-profit-but-mostly-just-for-vegetables/

Rails scaffolding for fun and maybe profit, but mostly just for vegetables So now that we’ve installed Rails and generated our application, let’s make it actually do something. I’d also recommend get introduced to Git first so we can save our place as we…

Git: Keeping track of changes to your cat-related poetry
https://rubycat.farm/2020/04/02/git-keeping-track-of-changes-to-your-cat-related-poetry/

Git: Keeping track of changes to your cat-related poetry Before we jump into building anything, let’s take a step back and think about how we keep track of changes. We want to be able to undo mistakes and look back in history to figure out what the…

Cats on Rails: An introduction to Ruby on Rails
https://rubycat.farm/2020/03/27/cats-on-rails/

Cats on Rails All right, so now that we’ve got a passing familiarity with Ruby and HTML, let’s get introduced to Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is a framework that enables making web applications super…

What's a cat farm? Well, it's a farm run by cats, of course. We're going to learn how to make web applications using Ruby on Rails in order to help them out. Follow along: https://rubycat.farm

Ruby Cat Farm Building a website to help cats run a farm