Web development in a nutshell

This repository contains the materials for the Web Development in a Nutshell.

Most of the material for the workshop is available on tutorial.md and the slides are available here.

Required software

For this workshop you'll need to have a text editor and Ruby installed on your machine. The easiest way to get this done is by downloading and installing:

• Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/)
• Docker (https://www.docker.com/get-started/)

Visual Studio Code is a text editor that works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It also provides connectivity to Docker which we will use to download a container with Ruby installed on it.

Once you have downloaded and installed Docker make sure you run the Docker application (aka Docker Desktop) and keep it running for the duration of the workshop.

Note: If you already have Ruby installed on your machine then you don't need Docker. Any version 3.x of Ruby is OK for this workshop.

Downloading the code examples

There are two options to download the code examples:

1. If you have Git installed on your machine you can clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/hectorcorrea/webdev-nutshell.git

2. If you don't have Git installed you can download this repository as a zip file and unzip it:

• Point your browser to https://github.com/hectorcorrea/webdev-nutshell/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
• Unzip the downloaded file webdev-nutshell-main.zip

Getting started

Once you have downloaded the code examples launch Visual Studio Code and open the folder with the code examples: webdev-nutshell if you used Git or webdev-nutshell-main otherwise.

And now you ready to follow the steps in tutorial.md

Happy coding your first web application!

Files in this repository

A brief description of the files in this repository.

Workshop tutorial:

• tutorial.md has most of the material that we will cover during the workshop.
• tutorial.pdf is a copy of tutorial.md but in PDF format.
• slides.pdf is a copy of the slides but in PDF format.

HTML and CSS examples:

• hello-world.html and hello-world-fancy.html are two small HTML samples.
• css-column-layout.html shows how to use CSS multiple column layout.
• css-grid-layout.html shows how to CSS grid layout.

Ruby examples:

• hello.rb and hello_again.rb are sample Ruby programs, nothing to do with the web.
• webdemo1.rb is a tiny web site in Ruby using Sinatra.
• webdemo2.rb a variation of webdemo1.rb that shows how to use views (i.e. ERB files).
• webdemo3_books.rb a more complete web site that allows the user to edit the data.