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Play by Play: Rails App Development with Aaron Patterson

Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) is one of Ruby's most respected and loved programmers. He's a committer to both Ruby and Ruby on Rails. He also has an epic sense of humor. In this course, we gave Aaron the task of writing a Rails app that queries GitHub and returns an activity score for any user.

Geoffrey Grosenbach - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Rails App Development with Aaron Patterson
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What you'll learn

In this course, we gave one of Ruby's most respected and loved programmers, Aaron Patterson, the task of writing a Rails app that queries GitHub and returns an activity score for any user. You'll see a master at work. Although this isn't a step-by-step tutorial, you'll see the following concepts used: Writing fast test cases, Powerful ways to use IRB, Git workflow within Vim, Working with a JSON API, Using ActiveRecord, Rails 3 development and testing workflow.

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Geoffrey Grosenbach - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Rails App Development with Aaron Patterson
Geoffrey Grosenbach

Geoffrey founded PeepCode and has created numerous courses on Ruby, JavaScript and Shell.

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