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##CoverMyMeds Ruby on Rails Training Program We provide you with the resources you need to become a successful CoverMyMeds Ruby on Rails developer.

  • MacBook Pro
  • Tutorials and instruction on a variety of subjects
  • Regular code reviews and mentoring
  • Lightning talks from our senior developers
  • Learning via open source contributions
  • Work on real projects
  • Regular pair programming once your training is complete!

##Description Each day in this three-week course will consist of instruction and reading, dedicated time for you to code and a two-hour mentoring session. Sessions include lightning talks, code review, pair programming and instruction.

We'll cover key components of our stack including:

  • Ruby fundamentals & debugging
  • Git & GitHub
  • Bundler
  • ActiveRecord
  • HAML & Coffeescript
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Testing with RSpec, Cucumber & Capybara
  • Introduction to Sinatra
  • Rails Components: Sessions, routing, security and key helper methods
  • CoverMyMeds specific tools & materials

##Course Curriculum

###Day 1-3

  • General CoverMyMeds Training

###Day 4

  • Intro to DeployWizard and our deployment process
  • Reserving testing environments
  • Utilizing pinglish
  • Using JenkinsCI
  • Start PairColumbus challenges (see key components above)
  • Talk: Product Verticals & Standards by senior engineer, Jon Canady
  • Talk: DeployWizard by co-op developer, Michael Kenworthy

###Day 5

  • Review Day 1
  • PairColumbus challenges
  • Finding help with HipChat & GitHub
  • Speaking to infrastructure rep
  • Creating and modifying test users
  • Using key tools
    • Sentry
    • Github Issues and Huboard
  • Talk: Sentry by operations engineer, Dan Sajner
  • Talk: Github Issues & Huboard by engineering manager, Barry Brinkley

###Day 6

  • Review deployment process
  • PairColumbus challenges
  • Databases & environment differences
  • Using Navicat
  • Locating database credentials
  • Using enviro & envirotron
  • Talk: Databases by our database administrators, Bruce Nation & CJ Estel

###Day 7

  • Review Q&A
  • PairColumbus challenges
  • Using key tools
    • Basecamp
    • New Relic (custom dashboards)
    • Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana & Lucene query parser syntax
    • Graphite/Grafana
    • gems.covermymeds.com
    • Rubocop
  • Talk: Kibana & New Relic by software engineer, Jon Martindell
  • Talk: Graphite/Grafana & Jenkins CI by senior test engineer, Brian Lees
  • Talk: Elasticsearch from lead mobile developer, Jim Muir

###Day 8

###Day 9

  • Review Q&A
  • PairColumbus challenges
  • Better coding practices (POODR, SRP, LoD, YAGNI)
  • CMM style guides
  • Live code review (MVCgame)
  • Books & resources
  • Talk: BackboneJS by software engineer, Alex Ford

###Day 10

  • Review Q&A
  • Pair Columbus challenges
  • Review coding & application standards
  • Our git workflow and using version control
  • Live code review (Completed Rails projects)
  • Review CoverMyMeds production code

###Day 11

  • Review Q&A
  • Pair Columbus challenges
  • Review of coding standards
  • Live code review (Completed Rails projects)
  • Review CoverMyMeds production code

###Day 12-14

  • Build and test a Rails application

###Day 15

  • Rails Application: Peer code review
  • Fill out exit survey

##Crossover Training

  • Join a product vertical consisting of experienced engineers, product managers, and test engineers
  • Regular pair programming and mentoring
  • Dive deep into our applications and software stack
  • Real project work