New students and others interested will have the option of learning Ruby 101 separately.

Homework: First make sure you've completed http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html, we will continue to work off of this tutorial. Then get as far as you can in both of the following tutorials. Don't worry if you don't finish them.

''Action Mailer Basics'' by RailsGuides

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html

''Request Specs and Capybara'' by Railscasts

http://railscasts.com/episodes/257-request-specs-and-capybara