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You’ve gone through the standard RailsBridge installfest and have successfully completed the Get a Sticker step.
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You’ve gone through the RailsBridge Suggestotron curriculum and the Job Board curriculum at least once before, or maybe a couple of times, or maybe you feel decently comfortable with Rails for some other reason.
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You want to learn more Rails!!!
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Make a thing!
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Understand what the models, views, and controllers of a Rails app do and how they work together.
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Get more comfortable using error messages as guideposts and not as scary things.
We’re going to build a message board system, where there are posts on the front page and you click through to see the original post plus discussion below.
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Challenge 1: Create a new rails app with a static home page
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Challenge 2: Install Devise
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Challenge 3: Make it pretty with Bootstrap
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Challenge 4: Add pages to create and look at individual posts
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Challenge 5: Make a posts index page
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Challenge 6: Add replying
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Challenge 7: Inline replying on a post
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Challenge ∞: Other features of your choice
Each time you get your app into a functional state, before adding any more features, COMMIT TO GIT! The new features will probably break things, which is neat, but you’ll want to be able to roll back to a prior version if necessary.
We called the sections challenges because they are challenging! This curriculum will be most fun as a collaboration — talk things through with your teacher, TAs, and other students. This is a very different style of curriculum than Suggestotron, so don’t be discouraged if you aren’t quite sure what to do next.