“I'd nearly given up trying to learn Rails. Every course or tutorial out there left me confused and frustrated.”
Every time we hear this (and we hear it almost daily!) it breaks our heart.
It's sad because the Ruby on Rails framework was intentionally designed for optimal programmer happiness and beautiful code! And yet, when it comes to learning Rails, you're left spinning your wheels.
It's your fault, right?
Wrong!
Learning Rails should be filled with many wonderful "Aha!" moments. But there's a good chance other courses spoiled that by either (unintentionally, of course) treating you like a 6-headed superhuman or a half-brained dimwit.
If you really had 6 brains, you could juggle multiple concepts at the same time. And yet, in our 21 years of teaching, we've only run across such creatures in sci-fi movies. In reality, we all just have one brain. It can multi-task when it's in survival mode. But in learning mode, your brain benefits from deliberate focus.
A Rails course that shoves in non-Rails topics and claims to give you "more value for your money" is really saying "we're going to throw a bunch of stuff at you and hope like crazy some of it sticks."
You know what really ends up sticking? The idea that Rails is magical and mysterious. And now you're really stuck because you can't start or maintain a Rails app with any degree of confidence.
So other Rails courses take the opposite approach. They assume you're a dimwit who's content with shallow explanations, quizzes that give you a false sense of understanding, and a pocketful of points. Satisfying? Hardly!
All those points don't matter if getting your app from idea to deployment leaves you in despair over time and opportunity lost.
Your head is dizzy.
Your dreams are dashed.
And who could blame you?!
How much more rewarding (and fun!) would it be to pop open your code editor next week and...
The same can be true for you!
Once you understand how all the pieces fit together, you can build whatever you want with Rails.
For 16 years we've been helping developers just like you move from confusion to confidence with Rails. One concept at a time. One clear explanation at a time. One "AHA!" moment at a time.
In our Rails course, we build a full-featured app from start to finish, step-by-step. For each new topic you:
You see every move, every change, every refactoring first hand. It's as if we're sitting down together building a Rails app. And we do our best to make it fun and friendly!
Pragmatic Studio is a US-based teaching company founded by Mike Clark and Nicole Clark — both long-running Ruby and Elixir educators. The studio publishes paid courses on the Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and Phoenix tracks at the level of comprehensive working-engineer reference material rather than introductory tutorials.
The CourseFlix listing carries six Pragmatic Studio courses spanning their full curriculum: Ruby Programming, Ruby on Rails 6, Ruby on Rails 7, Developing With Elixir/OTP, Full-Stack Phoenix, and Full-Stack GraphQL with Absinthe, Phoenix, and React. The teaching style is patient, project-oriented, and unusually rigorous about the foundational language and framework patterns.
Material is paid and aimed at developers building production proficiency with the Ruby and Elixir ecosystems. For broader content, see CourseFlix's Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and Phoenix category pages.
| # | Lesson Title | Duration | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction Demo | 02:20 | |
| 2 | Create the App | 04:07 | |
| 3 | Views and Controllers: Part 1 | 07:33 | |
| 4 | Views and Controllers: Part 2 | 08:29 | |
| 5 | Models: Part 1 | 07:40 | |
| 6 | Models: Part 2 | 11:24 | |
| 7 | Connecting MVC | 05:58 | |
| 8 | Migrations | 10:19 | |
| 9 | View Helpers | 09:22 | |
| 10 | Layouts | 03:58 | |
| 11 | Stylesheet and Image Assets | 07:25 | |
| 12 | Routes: Show Page | 10:09 | |
| 13 | Routes: Linking Pages | 09:14 | |
| 14 | Forms: Editing Records: Part 1 | 11:55 | |
| 15 | Forms: Editing Records: Part 2 | 11:55 | |
| 16 | Forms: Creating Records | 14:45 | |
| 17 | Partials | 06:56 | |
| 18 | Destroying Records | 05:31 | |
| 19 | Custom Queries | 06:22 | |
| 20 | Migrations Revisited | 09:58 | |
| 21 | Model Validations | 10:01 | |
| 22 | Handling Validation Errors | 09:28 | |
| 23 | The Flash | 05:24 | |
| 24 | One-to-Many: belongs_to | 13:45 | |
| 25 | One-to-Many: has_many | 11:51 | |
| 26 | One-to-Many: Nested Resources | 12:58 | |
| 27 | One-to-Many: Forms | 17:24 | |
| 28 | One-to-Many: Logic | 04:46 | |
| 29 | User Account Model | 13:21 | |
| 30 | User Signup | 10:21 | |
| 31 | Edit User Account | 07:51 | |
| 32 | Sign In | 12:33 | |
| 33 | Authentication | 08:00 | |
| 34 | Current User | 06:58 | |
| 35 | Sign Out | 05:25 | |
| 36 | Authorization: Part 1 | 09:10 | |
| 37 | Authorization: Part 2 | 10:07 | |
| 38 | Admin Users | 09:51 | |
| 39 | Many-to-Many Associations: Part 1 | 08:37 | |
| 40 | Many-to-Many Associations: Part 2 | 08:29 | |
| 41 | Another Many-to-Many Association | 10:37 | |
| 42 | Through Associations: Part 1 | 07:07 | |
| 43 | Through Associations: Part 2 | 13:16 | |
| 44 | Many-to-Many with Checkboxes: Part 1 | 10:17 | |
| 45 | Many-to-Many with Checkboxes: Part 2 | 05:33 | |
| 46 | Custom Scopes and Routes: Part 1 | 10:37 | |
| 47 | Custom Scopes and Routes: Part 2 | 07:25 | |
| 48 | Friendly URLs and Callbacks | 15:08 | |
| 49 | Deployment | 11:28 | |
| 50 | Active Storage File Uploads: Part 1 | 17:46 | |
| 51 | Active Storage File Uploads: Part 2 | 06:39 | |
| 52 | Encrypted Credentials | 06:30 | |
| 53 | Uploading Files to Amazon S3 | 04:44 | |
| 54 | Wrap Up | 00:20 |
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