software engineering for SaaS - …

You will need to go beyond the lecture materials to do the work. We recommend picking at least oneof these three options:

1. Free online materials including the Ruby documentation, the book "Programming Ruby", the Rails documentation, Rails guides, Rails overview material, Cucumber wiki, RSpec wiki, CSS documentation, official HTML documentation, Haml documentation, Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture catalog, the Git Book, the Heroku developer wiki, Rails For Zombies, and many other places.
2. Several very detailed books on individual topics, including the Ruby On Rails 3 Tutorial, The RSpec Book, The Cucumber Book, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship , Rubyisms in Rails , Version Control Using Git, The Art and Science of CSS, and Flexible, Reliable Software: Using Patterns and Agile Development (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing) .
3. We have been working on a book specifically designed to accompany this course. It ties together all these topics hitting the most important bits of each as part of a single narrative. It's available as an ebook (US$10) or print book (regularly US$20, but through the end of May 2012, reduced to US$10 for the MOOC).