#Rails ###Continued Learnings & Recommended Readings

##Rails Guides As you delve deeper into Rails, familiarize yourself with each of the following essential Rails Guides. Tonight, spend 90 minutes reading through 2 guides on topics you haven't read about yet or that you feel less familiar with.

Be aware that Ruby on Rails changes often, and there are different editions of these guides for each version. Make sure you are using the current "stable" guides, not the "edge" guides.

Routing from the Outside In

Validations
Migrations
Associations

Layouts and Rendering
Form Helpers
Asset Pipeline

Testing

##Submission

There is no URL to submit tonight, but please use the homework submission form to identify at least one interesting new thing you learned from your reading!

##Bonus: Other Useful Tools

Here are some other frequently-used Rails tools you might want to read about!

####FFaker

We've touched on using Ffaker to generate test data, but take a look at the docs!

####Simple Form

If you're feeling good about basic Rails forms, Simple Form gives you another way to do it.

####Sass

Syntactically awesome style sheets, Sass, makes writting CSS easier & more fun! Rails comes bundled with it by default, so even better.