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Ruby

Aaron Walton
Aaron Walton
3,557 Points
Posted by Aaron Walton
Aaron Walton
3,557 Points

Rails lessons up-to-date?

I'm finally going to have some time over the holidays to complete some lessons here. My plan was to do the Laravel track but I'm debating doing Rails instead. I know the Rails coursework has been on this site for some time. Has it been updated over time? Is it reasonably up-to-date?

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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Building Simple Rails App course is quite outdated (can't be done using the newest versions of Rails and other gems), but it had the best features and was well organized. The newer Build a Todo App course uses newer version of Rails and is doable using edge versions of gems (with some tweaks in RSpec), but it mostly covers testing and does not cover lots of features compared to the aforementioned course.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

The only way to follow these courses step-by-step, 100%, is to download the code from the first videos to have the correct, older versions of gems in Gemfile/Gemfile.lock and to closely watch what versions of other gems, bootstrap etc. are being installed/added to Gemfile in the videos.