FireHydrant: Get your registration on!
I’m super excited to release the first feature videos to everyone for the Let’s Build: FireHydrant.io series. In 2.5 hours we’ll walk through creating a registration feature for our service that includes creating an organization and it’s initial user tied to it.
TL;DR: You can watch the first videos for free right now: https://blindside.io/courses/let-s-build-firehydrant-io
What you can expect to learn
This course tries to be “raw”. You’ll be taken through application design, implementing features, and deployment by me, Robert Ross, but people like to call me Bobby Tables.
It’s important to emphasize that this course does not teach you Ruby and for that matter, Ruby on Rails. It is a requirement that you know these technologies at a beginner level before diving in.
Along with the big points listed, we’ll also go through:
- Sublime Text 3 tips and tricks — I am a long time Sublime Text user and my fingers have certain tricks up their sleeves that I love to teach other developers. Note: A lot of the tricks apply to other editors too!
- Git flow — There are a lot of ways to use git, over the years you learn quickly what not to do. We’ll go over that in this course.
- Application Design — Applications have design as well. When not carefully considered you can create a spaghetti code application very easily. Certain things can be avoided early on in an application to make for a brighter future.
- Behavior Driven Development — Tests are crucial for any production ready application. We won’t ship any feature in this course without a test accompanying it. This course uses RSpec + Turnip for its testing needs.
Course Structure
This course is intended for people that have done the tutorials, read the books, and built clones of popular short message websites. You’ve gone basically as far as you thought you could with the available material out there today.
The Lets Build: FireHydrant.io series has a simple mission: show how to build a functional product from scratch without leaving any steps out. This includes keyboard shortcuts, editor tricks, git flow, and of course, coding.
If you don’t know how to piece together your newfound knowledge about Ruby and Ruby on Rails, this course is meant for you.
This course aims to have relatively short videos (30 or less minutes). In each video we’ll have done enough work to yield a commit. Each video should be watched in succession, but will be concise enough to watch independently if you need a refresher.
We’ll also create user stories to better describe exactly the functionality we want.
Why do I need to sign up?
Eventually, this course will be offered for a small price when it is completed. In order to maintain your progress and know who has started the courses before it comes out, we’re asking for a simple registration to make sure you maintain access once the paywall is added.
