Lesson 1: Introduction to Ruby on Rails

Understanding the Rails philosophy and conventions

Setting up your development environment

The Rails ecosystem and community

Lesson 2: Generating a New Rails Application

Creating your first Rails application

Understanding Rails command line tools

Configuring your application

Lesson 3: Rails Project Structure

Exploring the Rails directory structure

Understanding key files and their purposes

Rails conventions and best practices

Lesson 4: Understanding MVC (Model-View-Controller)

The Model-View-Controller architecture

How Rails implements MVC

The request-response cycle in Rails

Lesson 5: What's ActiveRecord?

Introduction to ActiveRecord ORM

Database migrations and schema

ActiveRecord associations and validations

Lesson 6: Let's Init Our App

Setting up our Product Catalog application

Planning our application structure

Creating the initial routes and controllers

Lesson 7: Our First Model

Generating the Product model

Creating and running migrations

Adding validations and custom methods

Lesson 8: Our First DB Relation

Creating related models

Setting up associations between models

Working with foreign keys and references

Lesson 9: Scaffolded Controller, Routes, and CRUD

Generating scaffolded controllers

Understanding RESTful routes

Implementing CRUD operations

Lesson 10: Turbo Drive, Frames, and Streams

Introduction to Hotwire and Turbo

Working with Turbo Drive for page navigation

Using Turbo Frames and Streams for dynamic updates

Lesson 11: Stimulus Intro and Client Side Sorting

Introduction to Stimulus.js

Creating Stimulus controllers

Implementing client-side sorting with Stimulus

Lesson 12: Rails Doctrine Essentials

Understanding the Rails Doctrine principles

Best practices for Rails development

Next steps in your Rails journey