# \[ANN\] "Ruby on Rails Beyond the Basics" video training

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**Created:** [October 18, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-on-rails-beyond-the-basics-video-training/117643 "2007-10-18T21:47:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![kschell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kschell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kschell)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-on-rails-beyond-the-basics-video-training/117643/1 "2007-10-18T21:47:15Z")

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Rails friends,

I’m happy to announce that my latest video training, “Ruby on Rails  
Beyond the Basics”, has been released on the [lynda.com](http://lynda.com) Online Training  
Library.

[http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=395](http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=395)

“Ruby on Rails Beyond the Basics” is the sequel to “Ruby on Rails  
Essential Training” and is 11.5 hours of video training for web  
developers who already feel comfortable with the fundamentals of Ruby  
and the Rails MVC framework. I teach more of the Ruby language and  
spend a lot of time on code blocks. Then I show you how to use  
migrations, demonstrate how to create CRUD that doesn’t simply mimic  
scaffold, and give you a better understanding of ActiveRecord and some  
of the pitfalls that often trip up developers. I also cover  
validations, callbacks, routes, pagination, performance improvements  
and more.

Topics include:

- irb and the Rails console
- Intermediate Ruby language
- Code blocks
- Catching errors and raising exceptions
- Migrations
- Understanding ActiveRecord and avoiding common pitfalls
- Flexible controllers and views (aka “ditching scaffold”)
- Eager loading and cache counters
- Form validations and model callbacks
- Using partials and helpers to organize views
- Salting passwords for increased security
- Session data storage options
- Custom and named routes
- Pagination

“Ruby on Rails Beyond the Basics” is available online as streaming  
video to subscribers of the [lynda.com](http://lynda.com) Online Training Library ($25/  
month). It is will also be available soon as a CD-ROM both through  
[lynda.com](http://lynda.com) and [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com).

Beginners will be better off starting with “Ruby on Rails Essential  
Training” which is available online to [lynda.com](http://lynda.com) OTL subscribers  
([http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=324](http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=324)) and on CD-ROM  
from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) for $99.95 ([Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1596713089))

If you find it helpful, I hope you’ll let me know.

Best,  
Kevin S.