This course will be retired on April 30, 2018. We recommend "Ruby on Rails 5 Basics" for up-to-date content.
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In this stage, we'll learn how to implement the common pattern of "Remember Me" functionality in to our application.
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In this course, we're going to be designing an existing Rails application
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called ODOT and adding functionality to it.
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ODOT allows you to sign up and
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log in to create to do lists, add items to those lists, and manage them.
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>> This course will enhance that application by adding functionality
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to automatically sign in by clicking a remember me check box.
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We'll also add the CSS framework Zurb Foundation to the Rails app by
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using the official Foundation Rails Gem and then begin to style the application.
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>> In the process we'll learn how to install libraries
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in our Rails application, work with the official Rails documentation, and
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also learn about templating with Rails.
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>> If you'd like to follow along with building the application,
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there are several other course on Treehouse that cover that process.
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You can also download the project files attached to this video.
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Since we're going to be working with Ruby on Rails, it's important to have it
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installed on your computer as you go through the course.
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If you don't have it installed, please check out the Installing
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a Ruby Development Environment series link below this video.
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