Before starting some of the tutorials on this website, it is recommended to review some of the topics here. This is to make sure you are familiar with the relevant concepts for this site.
The articles in this category cover some of the basic topics that are relevant to web application development. These are brief articles that are meant to get you an idea of what to expect.
You can read these in order starting from 1., but it is not necessary. Some of the tutorials later on will reference specific articles here if needed.
Intro Knowing various data structures can be very beneficial when creating applications. For example, some data structures are faster to search through and some will be faster for inserting data. Depending on what your use case is, knowing when to use certain data structures and when to avoid certain ones …
Intro If you have followed through the Ruby on Rails tutorials on this website, then you should have a basic working application with an API to create, read, update, or delete items from your database. Following these concepts, you can build a lot of different applications, since this is essentially …
Intro When your application has gone live, you will probably want some way of monitoring it. For example, it would be very helpful if you were able to see how many users are visiting your site, where they are visiting from, or if it is even still running at all. …
Intro After you have made your website live and accessible by the world, you may want to give the public a way to find your website. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of making a website more accessible through search engines. This way when people use search engines like …
Intro Once you have built a web application, you will have to set up and configure a server before it can be deployed in a production environment. However, before diving into server configurations, learning how to use the terminal is very important. Terminal The terminal is used to execute commands …
Encrypting Encrypting is the process of turning data into something that is not understandable. Decrypting is the process of turning this jumbled information back into something readable. This is useful for hiding sensitive information such as credit card numbers and contact information. You can encrypt information in databases so that …
Intro Web servers help your web application serve information to clients. You can run an application with Rails with just its default application server, but it will likely not do too well in a production environment with lots of users trying to use the application at the same time. Servers …
Intro In this article, we will go over some of the most common ways of storing and retrieving data. Web applications typically use databases to manage their data. There are 2 main types of databases: SQL based databases and NoSQL databases. SQL Databases SQL databases are relational databses. This means …
