Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced, On-Demand Access with Lifetime Value and Zero Risk
You’re not signing up for a rigid program with deadlines or fixed schedules. This is a fully self-paced learning experience designed around your life, your goals, and your timeline. From the moment your enrollment is processed, you gain immediate online access to the complete course content, structured to support fast progress without overwhelm. Most learners complete the core curriculum in 6 to 8 weeks when dedicating 5 to 7 hours per week, and many report implementing their first AI-enhanced feature within the first 10 days. But there’s no pressure. You move at the speed that suits you, revisiting concepts as needed, applying them in real time to your projects, and building confidence through practice. Lifetime Access, Continuous Updates, Always Current
Your enrollment includes lifetime access to all course materials. This is not a limited-time window. You’ll retain full, 24/7 global access across devices, including smartphones and tablets, so you can learn during commutes, lunch breaks, or after hours-whenever it fits. As AI and Ruby on Rails evolve, so does this course. All future updates are included at no extra cost, ensuring your knowledge remains cutting edge for years to come. Direct Support from Industry-Recognised Instructors
You’re not left to figure it out alone. Throughout your journey, you’ll have access to direct instructor guidance. Whether you’re troubleshooting integration logic, refining an AI model, or optimising performance in production, our expert team provides timely, practical support tailored to your challenges. This is not automated or community-only help-it’s personalised expertise when you need it. A Globally Recognised Certificate of Completion
Upon finishing the course, you will earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This certification is trusted by professionals in over 120 countries and recognised by hiring managers, technical leads, and development agencies worldwide. It validates your mastery of AI-powered development workflows within the Ruby on Rails ecosystem and signals your commitment to high-impact, future-ready engineering practices. Display it on your LinkedIn profile, resume, or portfolio to strengthen your credibility and stand out in competitive job markets. Transparent, One-Time Pricing - No Hidden Fees
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We stand behind the value of this course with a complete money-back guarantee. If at any point you find the content does not meet your expectations or deliver tangible results, simply reach out for a prompt and no-questions-asked refund. This is our promise to you-your success is the only metric that matters. Secure Enrollment Process with Clear Access Instructions
After enrollment, you’ll automatically receive a confirmation email acknowledging your registration. Shortly afterward, a separate message will deliver your access instructions with a secure link to begin your learning journey. There are no delays, no confusion, and no need to check spam folders repeatedly. Everything arrives reliably and professionally. Will This Work for Me? Let’s Address That Directly.
Whether you’re a freelance Ruby developer looking to automate client work, a backend engineer aiming to integrate predictive models into existing Rails apps, or a startup CTO building AI-augmented SaaS platforms, this course is engineered for your success. Our learners include senior developers at Fortune 500 companies, solo founders scaling MVPs, and bootcamp grads accelerating their career growth-each applying the same proven methods. One junior developer built an AI-driven customer classification tool for her employer within three weeks and received a promotion. Another launched a Rails-based content generator that now powers five active client sites. A DevOps lead reduced API response latency by 42% using intelligent caching logic taught in Module 7. This works even if you’ve never trained a machine learning model before, even if you’re not a data scientist, and even if past courses left you with fragmented knowledge. The curriculum is designed so that each concept builds on the last, with real Rails patterns and production-ready code, not theoretical abstractions. Every concern you might have-about relevance, complexity, time, or applicability-is built into the design of this program. You're guided step by step, you see results fast, and you retain the skills permanently. That’s not a promise. It’s the standard.
Extensive & Detailed Course Curriculum
Module 1: Foundations of AI-Powered Web Development - Understanding the AI revolution in modern web applications
- Why Ruby on Rails remains a dominant framework for rapid development
- How AI augments developer productivity and system intelligence
- Key AI concepts for web developers without data science backgrounds
- Machine learning vs deep learning vs generative AI in practice
- Defining real-world use cases for AI in Rails applications
- Mapping AI features to business value and user experience
- Setting expectations for performance, accuracy, and maintainability
- Exploring common AI integrations in e-commerce, SaaS, and internal tools
- Overview of the course structure, learning outcomes, and success metrics
Module 2: Ruby on Rails Deep Refresh and Modern Architecture - Rails MVC pattern in the context of AI workflows
- Building flexible controllers to support dynamic AI responses
- Designing rich models with embedded logic and metadata
- Refactoring legacy code for AI extensibility
- Active Record patterns for storing AI-generated data
- Service objects and form objects for scalable AI operations
- Using decorators and presenters with AI-driven UI content
- Background job patterns using Active Job and Sidekiq
- Database design considerations for AI training and inference data
- Modern Rails application structure with API-first principles
- Organising code for clarity, testing, and team collaboration
- Namespacing strategies for AI-specific modules
- Configuration management for AI service credentials
- Using ENV variables, Rails credentials, and vault integration
- Testing strategies for isolated AI components
Module 3: Core AI Concepts for Full-Stack Developers - Natural Language Processing basics for text understanding
- Text classification, entity recognition, and sentiment analysis
- Vector embeddings and semantic similarity fundamentals
- Tokenisation, stop words, and text preprocessing pipelines
- Image recognition and computer vision use cases for Rails apps
- Predictive analytics for user behavior and conversion forecasting
- Recommendation systems in e-commerce and content platforms
- Automated decision making using rule engines and AI hybrid models
- Understanding model confidence, accuracy thresholds, and fallback logic
- Latency vs accuracy trade-offs in production environments
- AI model versioning and lifecycle management
- Differentiating supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
- When to use prebuilt AI APIs vs custom models
- Cost analysis of AI integration options
- Regulatory awareness for AI deployment in sensitive sectors
Module 4: AI Tooling and Service Landscape for Ruby - Overview of top AI platforms compatible with Ruby
- Comparing OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, AWS SageMaker, and Hugging Face
- Integrating REST and GraphQL APIs for AI inference
- Using Ruby gems for common AI workflows
- Installing and configuring Ollama for local model execution
- Running open-source LLMs directly in development environments
- Setting up AI gateways and proxy layers for security
- Caching AI responses to reduce cost and improve speed
- Rate limiting and retry logic for resilient AI calls
- API key rotation and secure credential handling
- Building retry strategies for intermittent AI service failures
- Monitoring AI API uptime and response quality
- Choosing between synchronous and asynchronous AI workflows
- Designing fallback mechanisms for degraded AI performance
- Instrumenting logs for AI request tracing and debugging
Module 5: Prompt Engineering and AI Interaction Design - Writing effective prompts for consistent, reliable outputs
- Prompt templates and reusable prompt libraries in Rails
- Structuring prompts with context, examples, and constraints
- Using few-shot learning techniques within application logic
- Chain-of-thought prompting for complex reasoning tasks
- Preventing hallucinations through strict formatting and validation
- Role-based prompting for customer service, analysis, and content
- Dynamically generating prompts from user inputs and database records
- Securing prompts against injection and adversarial manipulation
- Testing prompt variations for quality and consistency
- Logging and auditing prompt-response pairs for compliance
- Creating reusable prompt service classes in Rails
- Measuring prompt effectiveness with automated scoring
- Iterating on prompts based on user feedback
- Optimising token usage to reduce API costs
Module 6: Building AI-Powered Features in Rails - Automated content summarisation for long-form articles
- AI-driven email drafting and response suggestions
- Dynamic form field generation based on user context
- Smart customer support ticket classification and routing
- Automated product tagging and categorisation
- Sentiment analysis for user feedback and reviews
- Code generation assistants integrated into admin dashboards
- Data cleaning and transformation using AI suggestions
- AI-augmented search with semantic understanding
- Dynamic pricing recommendations based on market signals
- Personalised content feeds using preference modeling
- Language translation with context preservation
- Grammar and tone correction for user-generated text
- Resume parsing and applicant scoring for HR platforms
- Automated report generation from structured data
- AI-powered form validation and user guidance
Module 7: Performance, Caching, and Cost Optimisation - Analysing AI API response times and cost-per-call
- Designing caches for deterministic AI responses
- Using Redis and Memcached to store frequent AI outputs
- Implementing cache keys with input hashing for consistency
- Invalidating stale AI results based on data changes
- Batching multiple AI requests to reduce overhead
- Pre-generating AI content during low-traffic periods
- Using background jobs for non-critical AI tasks
- Monitoring monthly AI expenses with budget alerts
- Setting up cost tracking with structured logging
- Creating AI usage dashboards for team visibility
- Estimating ROI for AI features versus development cost
- Compressing inputs to reduce token count and cost
- Truncating long inputs safely without losing meaning
- Using smaller models for low-stakes predictions
Module 8: Testing, Reliability, and Error Handling - Writing unit tests for AI service wrappers
- Mocking AI responses in RSpec and Minitest
- Testing fallback paths and error recovery
- Validating AI output structure and data types
- Implementing retry logic with exponential backoff
- Graceful degradation when AI services are unavailable
- Benchmarking performance under load
- Using FactoryBot to generate test data for AI scenarios
- Integration testing AI features with full request specs
- Monitoring for degraded AI quality over time
- Detecting concept drift in AI model performance
- Alerting on abnormal error rates or latency spikes
- Creating synthetic test cases for edge behaviours
- Validating outputs against ground truth datasets
- Automated regression testing for prompt updates
Module 9: Security, Privacy, and Compliance - Identifying data leakage risks in AI interactions
- Sanitising user inputs before sending to AI services
- Preventing sensitive data from being exposed to third-party models
- Using data masking and redaction techniques
- Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and other data regulations
- On-premise vs cloud AI processing trade-offs
- Using local models for privacy-sensitive applications
- Creating data processing agreements for AI vendors
- Audit logging for AI data access and usage
- Role-based access control for AI features in Rails
- Securing API endpoints that expose AI capabilities
- Rate limiting to prevent abuse of AI-powered endpoints
- Monitoring for prompt injection and exploit attempts
- Regular security reviews of AI integration points
- Ethical AI use: avoiding bias and ensuring fairness
Module 10: Frontend Integration and User Experience - Streaming AI responses to the frontend with Server-Sent Events
- Displaying partial outputs as they arrive
- Building typing indicators and loading states for AI actions
- Handling interruptions and user cancellations
- Designing UI feedback for low-confidence AI responses
- Enabling user correction and feedback loops
- Allowing users to regenerate or refine AI outputs
- Creating version history for AI-generated content
- Highlighting changes between AI iterations
- Building approval workflows for AI suggestions
- Using Turbo Streams to update UI after AI processing
- Form integration: pre-populating fields with AI predictions
- Real-time collaboration with AI as a copilot
- Accessibility considerations for AI interfaces
- User control: opting in or out of AI features
Module 11: Advanced Patterns and Custom Model Training - When and why to fine-tune versus using pre-trained models
- Preparing datasets for custom model training
- Data annotation best practices for supervised learning
- Using Label Studio and open-source tools for labelling
- Exporting Rails data for training pipelines
- Training sentence transformers for semantic search
- Deploying custom models with Hugging Face
- Using Ruby scripts to interact with training APIs
- Validating model performance on real-world data
- Migrating from prototype to production-ready AI
- Version control for training data and model checkpoints
- Automating retraining with CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring model drift and concept shift
- A/B testing different AI models in production
- Canary releasing new models to subsets of users
Module 12: Real-World Project: AI-Enhanced SaaS Platform - Selecting a project idea: content generator, support assistant, or analytics tool
- Planning features, data models, and AI integration points
- Setting up a new Rails application with AI-ready architecture
- Designing the database schema for AI operations
- Building authentication and role management
- Creating a dashboard for user interaction with AI
- Implementing user input forms with validation
- Connecting to an AI service for text generation
- Storing and retrieving AI responses with metadata
- Adding export functionality for AI results
- Building a credit system for usage tracking
- Integrating with Stripe for billing and subscription management
- Creating admin tools to monitor AI usage patterns
- Adding team collaboration features
- Deploying to production with Render, Fly.io, or AWS
- Performing end-to-end testing of AI workflows
- Documenting the codebase and integration decisions
- Gathering feedback and iterating on improvements
Module 13: Deployment, Monitoring, and Scaling - Configuring production environments for AI stability
- Setting up logging and error tracking with Sentry
- Monitoring AI latency and success rates with Prometheus
- Creating alerts for degraded performance
- Scaling background workers to handle AI queue bursts
- Caching strategies for high-traffic AI applications
- Load testing AI-intensive endpoints
- Database indexing for AI metadata queries
- Using observability tools like Datadog and New Relic
- Managing environment differences across dev, staging, and prod
- Rollback strategies for faulty AI deployments
- Blue-green deployment patterns for zero-downtime updates
- Contingency planning for AI service outages
- Training documentation for team members
- Creating runbooks for common AI issues
Module 14: Career Advancement and Certification - Preparing for the final project submission
- Self-assessing against real-world AI developer standards
- Documenting your learning journey and project outcomes
- Receiving structured feedback on your implementation
- Finalising your project for portfolio presentation
- Writing case studies based on your AI feature builds
- Optimising your GitHub profile for AI-Rails skills
- Crafting compelling resume entries for AI projects
- Updating your LinkedIn to highlight certification and expertise
- Pitching AI enhancements during job interviews
- Negotiating higher rates or promotions with verifiable skills
- Networking with other AI-Rails developers
- Joining exclusive community channels for ongoing support
- Accessing templates for proposals, documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Receiving global recognition for your achievement
- Using the certificate to unlock freelance opportunities
- Becoming a trusted advisor on AI integration strategy
Module 1: Foundations of AI-Powered Web Development - Understanding the AI revolution in modern web applications
- Why Ruby on Rails remains a dominant framework for rapid development
- How AI augments developer productivity and system intelligence
- Key AI concepts for web developers without data science backgrounds
- Machine learning vs deep learning vs generative AI in practice
- Defining real-world use cases for AI in Rails applications
- Mapping AI features to business value and user experience
- Setting expectations for performance, accuracy, and maintainability
- Exploring common AI integrations in e-commerce, SaaS, and internal tools
- Overview of the course structure, learning outcomes, and success metrics
Module 2: Ruby on Rails Deep Refresh and Modern Architecture - Rails MVC pattern in the context of AI workflows
- Building flexible controllers to support dynamic AI responses
- Designing rich models with embedded logic and metadata
- Refactoring legacy code for AI extensibility
- Active Record patterns for storing AI-generated data
- Service objects and form objects for scalable AI operations
- Using decorators and presenters with AI-driven UI content
- Background job patterns using Active Job and Sidekiq
- Database design considerations for AI training and inference data
- Modern Rails application structure with API-first principles
- Organising code for clarity, testing, and team collaboration
- Namespacing strategies for AI-specific modules
- Configuration management for AI service credentials
- Using ENV variables, Rails credentials, and vault integration
- Testing strategies for isolated AI components
Module 3: Core AI Concepts for Full-Stack Developers - Natural Language Processing basics for text understanding
- Text classification, entity recognition, and sentiment analysis
- Vector embeddings and semantic similarity fundamentals
- Tokenisation, stop words, and text preprocessing pipelines
- Image recognition and computer vision use cases for Rails apps
- Predictive analytics for user behavior and conversion forecasting
- Recommendation systems in e-commerce and content platforms
- Automated decision making using rule engines and AI hybrid models
- Understanding model confidence, accuracy thresholds, and fallback logic
- Latency vs accuracy trade-offs in production environments
- AI model versioning and lifecycle management
- Differentiating supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
- When to use prebuilt AI APIs vs custom models
- Cost analysis of AI integration options
- Regulatory awareness for AI deployment in sensitive sectors
Module 4: AI Tooling and Service Landscape for Ruby - Overview of top AI platforms compatible with Ruby
- Comparing OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, AWS SageMaker, and Hugging Face
- Integrating REST and GraphQL APIs for AI inference
- Using Ruby gems for common AI workflows
- Installing and configuring Ollama for local model execution
- Running open-source LLMs directly in development environments
- Setting up AI gateways and proxy layers for security
- Caching AI responses to reduce cost and improve speed
- Rate limiting and retry logic for resilient AI calls
- API key rotation and secure credential handling
- Building retry strategies for intermittent AI service failures
- Monitoring AI API uptime and response quality
- Choosing between synchronous and asynchronous AI workflows
- Designing fallback mechanisms for degraded AI performance
- Instrumenting logs for AI request tracing and debugging
Module 5: Prompt Engineering and AI Interaction Design - Writing effective prompts for consistent, reliable outputs
- Prompt templates and reusable prompt libraries in Rails
- Structuring prompts with context, examples, and constraints
- Using few-shot learning techniques within application logic
- Chain-of-thought prompting for complex reasoning tasks
- Preventing hallucinations through strict formatting and validation
- Role-based prompting for customer service, analysis, and content
- Dynamically generating prompts from user inputs and database records
- Securing prompts against injection and adversarial manipulation
- Testing prompt variations for quality and consistency
- Logging and auditing prompt-response pairs for compliance
- Creating reusable prompt service classes in Rails
- Measuring prompt effectiveness with automated scoring
- Iterating on prompts based on user feedback
- Optimising token usage to reduce API costs
Module 6: Building AI-Powered Features in Rails - Automated content summarisation for long-form articles
- AI-driven email drafting and response suggestions
- Dynamic form field generation based on user context
- Smart customer support ticket classification and routing
- Automated product tagging and categorisation
- Sentiment analysis for user feedback and reviews
- Code generation assistants integrated into admin dashboards
- Data cleaning and transformation using AI suggestions
- AI-augmented search with semantic understanding
- Dynamic pricing recommendations based on market signals
- Personalised content feeds using preference modeling
- Language translation with context preservation
- Grammar and tone correction for user-generated text
- Resume parsing and applicant scoring for HR platforms
- Automated report generation from structured data
- AI-powered form validation and user guidance
Module 7: Performance, Caching, and Cost Optimisation - Analysing AI API response times and cost-per-call
- Designing caches for deterministic AI responses
- Using Redis and Memcached to store frequent AI outputs
- Implementing cache keys with input hashing for consistency
- Invalidating stale AI results based on data changes
- Batching multiple AI requests to reduce overhead
- Pre-generating AI content during low-traffic periods
- Using background jobs for non-critical AI tasks
- Monitoring monthly AI expenses with budget alerts
- Setting up cost tracking with structured logging
- Creating AI usage dashboards for team visibility
- Estimating ROI for AI features versus development cost
- Compressing inputs to reduce token count and cost
- Truncating long inputs safely without losing meaning
- Using smaller models for low-stakes predictions
Module 8: Testing, Reliability, and Error Handling - Writing unit tests for AI service wrappers
- Mocking AI responses in RSpec and Minitest
- Testing fallback paths and error recovery
- Validating AI output structure and data types
- Implementing retry logic with exponential backoff
- Graceful degradation when AI services are unavailable
- Benchmarking performance under load
- Using FactoryBot to generate test data for AI scenarios
- Integration testing AI features with full request specs
- Monitoring for degraded AI quality over time
- Detecting concept drift in AI model performance
- Alerting on abnormal error rates or latency spikes
- Creating synthetic test cases for edge behaviours
- Validating outputs against ground truth datasets
- Automated regression testing for prompt updates
Module 9: Security, Privacy, and Compliance - Identifying data leakage risks in AI interactions
- Sanitising user inputs before sending to AI services
- Preventing sensitive data from being exposed to third-party models
- Using data masking and redaction techniques
- Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and other data regulations
- On-premise vs cloud AI processing trade-offs
- Using local models for privacy-sensitive applications
- Creating data processing agreements for AI vendors
- Audit logging for AI data access and usage
- Role-based access control for AI features in Rails
- Securing API endpoints that expose AI capabilities
- Rate limiting to prevent abuse of AI-powered endpoints
- Monitoring for prompt injection and exploit attempts
- Regular security reviews of AI integration points
- Ethical AI use: avoiding bias and ensuring fairness
Module 10: Frontend Integration and User Experience - Streaming AI responses to the frontend with Server-Sent Events
- Displaying partial outputs as they arrive
- Building typing indicators and loading states for AI actions
- Handling interruptions and user cancellations
- Designing UI feedback for low-confidence AI responses
- Enabling user correction and feedback loops
- Allowing users to regenerate or refine AI outputs
- Creating version history for AI-generated content
- Highlighting changes between AI iterations
- Building approval workflows for AI suggestions
- Using Turbo Streams to update UI after AI processing
- Form integration: pre-populating fields with AI predictions
- Real-time collaboration with AI as a copilot
- Accessibility considerations for AI interfaces
- User control: opting in or out of AI features
Module 11: Advanced Patterns and Custom Model Training - When and why to fine-tune versus using pre-trained models
- Preparing datasets for custom model training
- Data annotation best practices for supervised learning
- Using Label Studio and open-source tools for labelling
- Exporting Rails data for training pipelines
- Training sentence transformers for semantic search
- Deploying custom models with Hugging Face
- Using Ruby scripts to interact with training APIs
- Validating model performance on real-world data
- Migrating from prototype to production-ready AI
- Version control for training data and model checkpoints
- Automating retraining with CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring model drift and concept shift
- A/B testing different AI models in production
- Canary releasing new models to subsets of users
Module 12: Real-World Project: AI-Enhanced SaaS Platform - Selecting a project idea: content generator, support assistant, or analytics tool
- Planning features, data models, and AI integration points
- Setting up a new Rails application with AI-ready architecture
- Designing the database schema for AI operations
- Building authentication and role management
- Creating a dashboard for user interaction with AI
- Implementing user input forms with validation
- Connecting to an AI service for text generation
- Storing and retrieving AI responses with metadata
- Adding export functionality for AI results
- Building a credit system for usage tracking
- Integrating with Stripe for billing and subscription management
- Creating admin tools to monitor AI usage patterns
- Adding team collaboration features
- Deploying to production with Render, Fly.io, or AWS
- Performing end-to-end testing of AI workflows
- Documenting the codebase and integration decisions
- Gathering feedback and iterating on improvements
Module 13: Deployment, Monitoring, and Scaling - Configuring production environments for AI stability
- Setting up logging and error tracking with Sentry
- Monitoring AI latency and success rates with Prometheus
- Creating alerts for degraded performance
- Scaling background workers to handle AI queue bursts
- Caching strategies for high-traffic AI applications
- Load testing AI-intensive endpoints
- Database indexing for AI metadata queries
- Using observability tools like Datadog and New Relic
- Managing environment differences across dev, staging, and prod
- Rollback strategies for faulty AI deployments
- Blue-green deployment patterns for zero-downtime updates
- Contingency planning for AI service outages
- Training documentation for team members
- Creating runbooks for common AI issues
Module 14: Career Advancement and Certification - Preparing for the final project submission
- Self-assessing against real-world AI developer standards
- Documenting your learning journey and project outcomes
- Receiving structured feedback on your implementation
- Finalising your project for portfolio presentation
- Writing case studies based on your AI feature builds
- Optimising your GitHub profile for AI-Rails skills
- Crafting compelling resume entries for AI projects
- Updating your LinkedIn to highlight certification and expertise
- Pitching AI enhancements during job interviews
- Negotiating higher rates or promotions with verifiable skills
- Networking with other AI-Rails developers
- Joining exclusive community channels for ongoing support
- Accessing templates for proposals, documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Receiving global recognition for your achievement
- Using the certificate to unlock freelance opportunities
- Becoming a trusted advisor on AI integration strategy
- Rails MVC pattern in the context of AI workflows
- Building flexible controllers to support dynamic AI responses
- Designing rich models with embedded logic and metadata
- Refactoring legacy code for AI extensibility
- Active Record patterns for storing AI-generated data
- Service objects and form objects for scalable AI operations
- Using decorators and presenters with AI-driven UI content
- Background job patterns using Active Job and Sidekiq
- Database design considerations for AI training and inference data
- Modern Rails application structure with API-first principles
- Organising code for clarity, testing, and team collaboration
- Namespacing strategies for AI-specific modules
- Configuration management for AI service credentials
- Using ENV variables, Rails credentials, and vault integration
- Testing strategies for isolated AI components
Module 3: Core AI Concepts for Full-Stack Developers - Natural Language Processing basics for text understanding
- Text classification, entity recognition, and sentiment analysis
- Vector embeddings and semantic similarity fundamentals
- Tokenisation, stop words, and text preprocessing pipelines
- Image recognition and computer vision use cases for Rails apps
- Predictive analytics for user behavior and conversion forecasting
- Recommendation systems in e-commerce and content platforms
- Automated decision making using rule engines and AI hybrid models
- Understanding model confidence, accuracy thresholds, and fallback logic
- Latency vs accuracy trade-offs in production environments
- AI model versioning and lifecycle management
- Differentiating supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
- When to use prebuilt AI APIs vs custom models
- Cost analysis of AI integration options
- Regulatory awareness for AI deployment in sensitive sectors
Module 4: AI Tooling and Service Landscape for Ruby - Overview of top AI platforms compatible with Ruby
- Comparing OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, AWS SageMaker, and Hugging Face
- Integrating REST and GraphQL APIs for AI inference
- Using Ruby gems for common AI workflows
- Installing and configuring Ollama for local model execution
- Running open-source LLMs directly in development environments
- Setting up AI gateways and proxy layers for security
- Caching AI responses to reduce cost and improve speed
- Rate limiting and retry logic for resilient AI calls
- API key rotation and secure credential handling
- Building retry strategies for intermittent AI service failures
- Monitoring AI API uptime and response quality
- Choosing between synchronous and asynchronous AI workflows
- Designing fallback mechanisms for degraded AI performance
- Instrumenting logs for AI request tracing and debugging
Module 5: Prompt Engineering and AI Interaction Design - Writing effective prompts for consistent, reliable outputs
- Prompt templates and reusable prompt libraries in Rails
- Structuring prompts with context, examples, and constraints
- Using few-shot learning techniques within application logic
- Chain-of-thought prompting for complex reasoning tasks
- Preventing hallucinations through strict formatting and validation
- Role-based prompting for customer service, analysis, and content
- Dynamically generating prompts from user inputs and database records
- Securing prompts against injection and adversarial manipulation
- Testing prompt variations for quality and consistency
- Logging and auditing prompt-response pairs for compliance
- Creating reusable prompt service classes in Rails
- Measuring prompt effectiveness with automated scoring
- Iterating on prompts based on user feedback
- Optimising token usage to reduce API costs
Module 6: Building AI-Powered Features in Rails - Automated content summarisation for long-form articles
- AI-driven email drafting and response suggestions
- Dynamic form field generation based on user context
- Smart customer support ticket classification and routing
- Automated product tagging and categorisation
- Sentiment analysis for user feedback and reviews
- Code generation assistants integrated into admin dashboards
- Data cleaning and transformation using AI suggestions
- AI-augmented search with semantic understanding
- Dynamic pricing recommendations based on market signals
- Personalised content feeds using preference modeling
- Language translation with context preservation
- Grammar and tone correction for user-generated text
- Resume parsing and applicant scoring for HR platforms
- Automated report generation from structured data
- AI-powered form validation and user guidance
Module 7: Performance, Caching, and Cost Optimisation - Analysing AI API response times and cost-per-call
- Designing caches for deterministic AI responses
- Using Redis and Memcached to store frequent AI outputs
- Implementing cache keys with input hashing for consistency
- Invalidating stale AI results based on data changes
- Batching multiple AI requests to reduce overhead
- Pre-generating AI content during low-traffic periods
- Using background jobs for non-critical AI tasks
- Monitoring monthly AI expenses with budget alerts
- Setting up cost tracking with structured logging
- Creating AI usage dashboards for team visibility
- Estimating ROI for AI features versus development cost
- Compressing inputs to reduce token count and cost
- Truncating long inputs safely without losing meaning
- Using smaller models for low-stakes predictions
Module 8: Testing, Reliability, and Error Handling - Writing unit tests for AI service wrappers
- Mocking AI responses in RSpec and Minitest
- Testing fallback paths and error recovery
- Validating AI output structure and data types
- Implementing retry logic with exponential backoff
- Graceful degradation when AI services are unavailable
- Benchmarking performance under load
- Using FactoryBot to generate test data for AI scenarios
- Integration testing AI features with full request specs
- Monitoring for degraded AI quality over time
- Detecting concept drift in AI model performance
- Alerting on abnormal error rates or latency spikes
- Creating synthetic test cases for edge behaviours
- Validating outputs against ground truth datasets
- Automated regression testing for prompt updates
Module 9: Security, Privacy, and Compliance - Identifying data leakage risks in AI interactions
- Sanitising user inputs before sending to AI services
- Preventing sensitive data from being exposed to third-party models
- Using data masking and redaction techniques
- Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and other data regulations
- On-premise vs cloud AI processing trade-offs
- Using local models for privacy-sensitive applications
- Creating data processing agreements for AI vendors
- Audit logging for AI data access and usage
- Role-based access control for AI features in Rails
- Securing API endpoints that expose AI capabilities
- Rate limiting to prevent abuse of AI-powered endpoints
- Monitoring for prompt injection and exploit attempts
- Regular security reviews of AI integration points
- Ethical AI use: avoiding bias and ensuring fairness
Module 10: Frontend Integration and User Experience - Streaming AI responses to the frontend with Server-Sent Events
- Displaying partial outputs as they arrive
- Building typing indicators and loading states for AI actions
- Handling interruptions and user cancellations
- Designing UI feedback for low-confidence AI responses
- Enabling user correction and feedback loops
- Allowing users to regenerate or refine AI outputs
- Creating version history for AI-generated content
- Highlighting changes between AI iterations
- Building approval workflows for AI suggestions
- Using Turbo Streams to update UI after AI processing
- Form integration: pre-populating fields with AI predictions
- Real-time collaboration with AI as a copilot
- Accessibility considerations for AI interfaces
- User control: opting in or out of AI features
Module 11: Advanced Patterns and Custom Model Training - When and why to fine-tune versus using pre-trained models
- Preparing datasets for custom model training
- Data annotation best practices for supervised learning
- Using Label Studio and open-source tools for labelling
- Exporting Rails data for training pipelines
- Training sentence transformers for semantic search
- Deploying custom models with Hugging Face
- Using Ruby scripts to interact with training APIs
- Validating model performance on real-world data
- Migrating from prototype to production-ready AI
- Version control for training data and model checkpoints
- Automating retraining with CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring model drift and concept shift
- A/B testing different AI models in production
- Canary releasing new models to subsets of users
Module 12: Real-World Project: AI-Enhanced SaaS Platform - Selecting a project idea: content generator, support assistant, or analytics tool
- Planning features, data models, and AI integration points
- Setting up a new Rails application with AI-ready architecture
- Designing the database schema for AI operations
- Building authentication and role management
- Creating a dashboard for user interaction with AI
- Implementing user input forms with validation
- Connecting to an AI service for text generation
- Storing and retrieving AI responses with metadata
- Adding export functionality for AI results
- Building a credit system for usage tracking
- Integrating with Stripe for billing and subscription management
- Creating admin tools to monitor AI usage patterns
- Adding team collaboration features
- Deploying to production with Render, Fly.io, or AWS
- Performing end-to-end testing of AI workflows
- Documenting the codebase and integration decisions
- Gathering feedback and iterating on improvements
Module 13: Deployment, Monitoring, and Scaling - Configuring production environments for AI stability
- Setting up logging and error tracking with Sentry
- Monitoring AI latency and success rates with Prometheus
- Creating alerts for degraded performance
- Scaling background workers to handle AI queue bursts
- Caching strategies for high-traffic AI applications
- Load testing AI-intensive endpoints
- Database indexing for AI metadata queries
- Using observability tools like Datadog and New Relic
- Managing environment differences across dev, staging, and prod
- Rollback strategies for faulty AI deployments
- Blue-green deployment patterns for zero-downtime updates
- Contingency planning for AI service outages
- Training documentation for team members
- Creating runbooks for common AI issues
Module 14: Career Advancement and Certification - Preparing for the final project submission
- Self-assessing against real-world AI developer standards
- Documenting your learning journey and project outcomes
- Receiving structured feedback on your implementation
- Finalising your project for portfolio presentation
- Writing case studies based on your AI feature builds
- Optimising your GitHub profile for AI-Rails skills
- Crafting compelling resume entries for AI projects
- Updating your LinkedIn to highlight certification and expertise
- Pitching AI enhancements during job interviews
- Negotiating higher rates or promotions with verifiable skills
- Networking with other AI-Rails developers
- Joining exclusive community channels for ongoing support
- Accessing templates for proposals, documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Receiving global recognition for your achievement
- Using the certificate to unlock freelance opportunities
- Becoming a trusted advisor on AI integration strategy
- Overview of top AI platforms compatible with Ruby
- Comparing OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, AWS SageMaker, and Hugging Face
- Integrating REST and GraphQL APIs for AI inference
- Using Ruby gems for common AI workflows
- Installing and configuring Ollama for local model execution
- Running open-source LLMs directly in development environments
- Setting up AI gateways and proxy layers for security
- Caching AI responses to reduce cost and improve speed
- Rate limiting and retry logic for resilient AI calls
- API key rotation and secure credential handling
- Building retry strategies for intermittent AI service failures
- Monitoring AI API uptime and response quality
- Choosing between synchronous and asynchronous AI workflows
- Designing fallback mechanisms for degraded AI performance
- Instrumenting logs for AI request tracing and debugging
Module 5: Prompt Engineering and AI Interaction Design - Writing effective prompts for consistent, reliable outputs
- Prompt templates and reusable prompt libraries in Rails
- Structuring prompts with context, examples, and constraints
- Using few-shot learning techniques within application logic
- Chain-of-thought prompting for complex reasoning tasks
- Preventing hallucinations through strict formatting and validation
- Role-based prompting for customer service, analysis, and content
- Dynamically generating prompts from user inputs and database records
- Securing prompts against injection and adversarial manipulation
- Testing prompt variations for quality and consistency
- Logging and auditing prompt-response pairs for compliance
- Creating reusable prompt service classes in Rails
- Measuring prompt effectiveness with automated scoring
- Iterating on prompts based on user feedback
- Optimising token usage to reduce API costs
Module 6: Building AI-Powered Features in Rails - Automated content summarisation for long-form articles
- AI-driven email drafting and response suggestions
- Dynamic form field generation based on user context
- Smart customer support ticket classification and routing
- Automated product tagging and categorisation
- Sentiment analysis for user feedback and reviews
- Code generation assistants integrated into admin dashboards
- Data cleaning and transformation using AI suggestions
- AI-augmented search with semantic understanding
- Dynamic pricing recommendations based on market signals
- Personalised content feeds using preference modeling
- Language translation with context preservation
- Grammar and tone correction for user-generated text
- Resume parsing and applicant scoring for HR platforms
- Automated report generation from structured data
- AI-powered form validation and user guidance
Module 7: Performance, Caching, and Cost Optimisation - Analysing AI API response times and cost-per-call
- Designing caches for deterministic AI responses
- Using Redis and Memcached to store frequent AI outputs
- Implementing cache keys with input hashing for consistency
- Invalidating stale AI results based on data changes
- Batching multiple AI requests to reduce overhead
- Pre-generating AI content during low-traffic periods
- Using background jobs for non-critical AI tasks
- Monitoring monthly AI expenses with budget alerts
- Setting up cost tracking with structured logging
- Creating AI usage dashboards for team visibility
- Estimating ROI for AI features versus development cost
- Compressing inputs to reduce token count and cost
- Truncating long inputs safely without losing meaning
- Using smaller models for low-stakes predictions
Module 8: Testing, Reliability, and Error Handling - Writing unit tests for AI service wrappers
- Mocking AI responses in RSpec and Minitest
- Testing fallback paths and error recovery
- Validating AI output structure and data types
- Implementing retry logic with exponential backoff
- Graceful degradation when AI services are unavailable
- Benchmarking performance under load
- Using FactoryBot to generate test data for AI scenarios
- Integration testing AI features with full request specs
- Monitoring for degraded AI quality over time
- Detecting concept drift in AI model performance
- Alerting on abnormal error rates or latency spikes
- Creating synthetic test cases for edge behaviours
- Validating outputs against ground truth datasets
- Automated regression testing for prompt updates
Module 9: Security, Privacy, and Compliance - Identifying data leakage risks in AI interactions
- Sanitising user inputs before sending to AI services
- Preventing sensitive data from being exposed to third-party models
- Using data masking and redaction techniques
- Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and other data regulations
- On-premise vs cloud AI processing trade-offs
- Using local models for privacy-sensitive applications
- Creating data processing agreements for AI vendors
- Audit logging for AI data access and usage
- Role-based access control for AI features in Rails
- Securing API endpoints that expose AI capabilities
- Rate limiting to prevent abuse of AI-powered endpoints
- Monitoring for prompt injection and exploit attempts
- Regular security reviews of AI integration points
- Ethical AI use: avoiding bias and ensuring fairness
Module 10: Frontend Integration and User Experience - Streaming AI responses to the frontend with Server-Sent Events
- Displaying partial outputs as they arrive
- Building typing indicators and loading states for AI actions
- Handling interruptions and user cancellations
- Designing UI feedback for low-confidence AI responses
- Enabling user correction and feedback loops
- Allowing users to regenerate or refine AI outputs
- Creating version history for AI-generated content
- Highlighting changes between AI iterations
- Building approval workflows for AI suggestions
- Using Turbo Streams to update UI after AI processing
- Form integration: pre-populating fields with AI predictions
- Real-time collaboration with AI as a copilot
- Accessibility considerations for AI interfaces
- User control: opting in or out of AI features
Module 11: Advanced Patterns and Custom Model Training - When and why to fine-tune versus using pre-trained models
- Preparing datasets for custom model training
- Data annotation best practices for supervised learning
- Using Label Studio and open-source tools for labelling
- Exporting Rails data for training pipelines
- Training sentence transformers for semantic search
- Deploying custom models with Hugging Face
- Using Ruby scripts to interact with training APIs
- Validating model performance on real-world data
- Migrating from prototype to production-ready AI
- Version control for training data and model checkpoints
- Automating retraining with CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring model drift and concept shift
- A/B testing different AI models in production
- Canary releasing new models to subsets of users
Module 12: Real-World Project: AI-Enhanced SaaS Platform - Selecting a project idea: content generator, support assistant, or analytics tool
- Planning features, data models, and AI integration points
- Setting up a new Rails application with AI-ready architecture
- Designing the database schema for AI operations
- Building authentication and role management
- Creating a dashboard for user interaction with AI
- Implementing user input forms with validation
- Connecting to an AI service for text generation
- Storing and retrieving AI responses with metadata
- Adding export functionality for AI results
- Building a credit system for usage tracking
- Integrating with Stripe for billing and subscription management
- Creating admin tools to monitor AI usage patterns
- Adding team collaboration features
- Deploying to production with Render, Fly.io, or AWS
- Performing end-to-end testing of AI workflows
- Documenting the codebase and integration decisions
- Gathering feedback and iterating on improvements
Module 13: Deployment, Monitoring, and Scaling - Configuring production environments for AI stability
- Setting up logging and error tracking with Sentry
- Monitoring AI latency and success rates with Prometheus
- Creating alerts for degraded performance
- Scaling background workers to handle AI queue bursts
- Caching strategies for high-traffic AI applications
- Load testing AI-intensive endpoints
- Database indexing for AI metadata queries
- Using observability tools like Datadog and New Relic
- Managing environment differences across dev, staging, and prod
- Rollback strategies for faulty AI deployments
- Blue-green deployment patterns for zero-downtime updates
- Contingency planning for AI service outages
- Training documentation for team members
- Creating runbooks for common AI issues
Module 14: Career Advancement and Certification - Preparing for the final project submission
- Self-assessing against real-world AI developer standards
- Documenting your learning journey and project outcomes
- Receiving structured feedback on your implementation
- Finalising your project for portfolio presentation
- Writing case studies based on your AI feature builds
- Optimising your GitHub profile for AI-Rails skills
- Crafting compelling resume entries for AI projects
- Updating your LinkedIn to highlight certification and expertise
- Pitching AI enhancements during job interviews
- Negotiating higher rates or promotions with verifiable skills
- Networking with other AI-Rails developers
- Joining exclusive community channels for ongoing support
- Accessing templates for proposals, documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Receiving global recognition for your achievement
- Using the certificate to unlock freelance opportunities
- Becoming a trusted advisor on AI integration strategy
- Automated content summarisation for long-form articles
- AI-driven email drafting and response suggestions
- Dynamic form field generation based on user context
- Smart customer support ticket classification and routing
- Automated product tagging and categorisation
- Sentiment analysis for user feedback and reviews
- Code generation assistants integrated into admin dashboards
- Data cleaning and transformation using AI suggestions
- AI-augmented search with semantic understanding
- Dynamic pricing recommendations based on market signals
- Personalised content feeds using preference modeling
- Language translation with context preservation
- Grammar and tone correction for user-generated text
- Resume parsing and applicant scoring for HR platforms
- Automated report generation from structured data
- AI-powered form validation and user guidance
Module 7: Performance, Caching, and Cost Optimisation - Analysing AI API response times and cost-per-call
- Designing caches for deterministic AI responses
- Using Redis and Memcached to store frequent AI outputs
- Implementing cache keys with input hashing for consistency
- Invalidating stale AI results based on data changes
- Batching multiple AI requests to reduce overhead
- Pre-generating AI content during low-traffic periods
- Using background jobs for non-critical AI tasks
- Monitoring monthly AI expenses with budget alerts
- Setting up cost tracking with structured logging
- Creating AI usage dashboards for team visibility
- Estimating ROI for AI features versus development cost
- Compressing inputs to reduce token count and cost
- Truncating long inputs safely without losing meaning
- Using smaller models for low-stakes predictions
Module 8: Testing, Reliability, and Error Handling - Writing unit tests for AI service wrappers
- Mocking AI responses in RSpec and Minitest
- Testing fallback paths and error recovery
- Validating AI output structure and data types
- Implementing retry logic with exponential backoff
- Graceful degradation when AI services are unavailable
- Benchmarking performance under load
- Using FactoryBot to generate test data for AI scenarios
- Integration testing AI features with full request specs
- Monitoring for degraded AI quality over time
- Detecting concept drift in AI model performance
- Alerting on abnormal error rates or latency spikes
- Creating synthetic test cases for edge behaviours
- Validating outputs against ground truth datasets
- Automated regression testing for prompt updates
Module 9: Security, Privacy, and Compliance - Identifying data leakage risks in AI interactions
- Sanitising user inputs before sending to AI services
- Preventing sensitive data from being exposed to third-party models
- Using data masking and redaction techniques
- Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and other data regulations
- On-premise vs cloud AI processing trade-offs
- Using local models for privacy-sensitive applications
- Creating data processing agreements for AI vendors
- Audit logging for AI data access and usage
- Role-based access control for AI features in Rails
- Securing API endpoints that expose AI capabilities
- Rate limiting to prevent abuse of AI-powered endpoints
- Monitoring for prompt injection and exploit attempts
- Regular security reviews of AI integration points
- Ethical AI use: avoiding bias and ensuring fairness
Module 10: Frontend Integration and User Experience - Streaming AI responses to the frontend with Server-Sent Events
- Displaying partial outputs as they arrive
- Building typing indicators and loading states for AI actions
- Handling interruptions and user cancellations
- Designing UI feedback for low-confidence AI responses
- Enabling user correction and feedback loops
- Allowing users to regenerate or refine AI outputs
- Creating version history for AI-generated content
- Highlighting changes between AI iterations
- Building approval workflows for AI suggestions
- Using Turbo Streams to update UI after AI processing
- Form integration: pre-populating fields with AI predictions
- Real-time collaboration with AI as a copilot
- Accessibility considerations for AI interfaces
- User control: opting in or out of AI features
Module 11: Advanced Patterns and Custom Model Training - When and why to fine-tune versus using pre-trained models
- Preparing datasets for custom model training
- Data annotation best practices for supervised learning
- Using Label Studio and open-source tools for labelling
- Exporting Rails data for training pipelines
- Training sentence transformers for semantic search
- Deploying custom models with Hugging Face
- Using Ruby scripts to interact with training APIs
- Validating model performance on real-world data
- Migrating from prototype to production-ready AI
- Version control for training data and model checkpoints
- Automating retraining with CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring model drift and concept shift
- A/B testing different AI models in production
- Canary releasing new models to subsets of users
Module 12: Real-World Project: AI-Enhanced SaaS Platform - Selecting a project idea: content generator, support assistant, or analytics tool
- Planning features, data models, and AI integration points
- Setting up a new Rails application with AI-ready architecture
- Designing the database schema for AI operations
- Building authentication and role management
- Creating a dashboard for user interaction with AI
- Implementing user input forms with validation
- Connecting to an AI service for text generation
- Storing and retrieving AI responses with metadata
- Adding export functionality for AI results
- Building a credit system for usage tracking
- Integrating with Stripe for billing and subscription management
- Creating admin tools to monitor AI usage patterns
- Adding team collaboration features
- Deploying to production with Render, Fly.io, or AWS
- Performing end-to-end testing of AI workflows
- Documenting the codebase and integration decisions
- Gathering feedback and iterating on improvements
Module 13: Deployment, Monitoring, and Scaling - Configuring production environments for AI stability
- Setting up logging and error tracking with Sentry
- Monitoring AI latency and success rates with Prometheus
- Creating alerts for degraded performance
- Scaling background workers to handle AI queue bursts
- Caching strategies for high-traffic AI applications
- Load testing AI-intensive endpoints
- Database indexing for AI metadata queries
- Using observability tools like Datadog and New Relic
- Managing environment differences across dev, staging, and prod
- Rollback strategies for faulty AI deployments
- Blue-green deployment patterns for zero-downtime updates
- Contingency planning for AI service outages
- Training documentation for team members
- Creating runbooks for common AI issues
Module 14: Career Advancement and Certification - Preparing for the final project submission
- Self-assessing against real-world AI developer standards
- Documenting your learning journey and project outcomes
- Receiving structured feedback on your implementation
- Finalising your project for portfolio presentation
- Writing case studies based on your AI feature builds
- Optimising your GitHub profile for AI-Rails skills
- Crafting compelling resume entries for AI projects
- Updating your LinkedIn to highlight certification and expertise
- Pitching AI enhancements during job interviews
- Negotiating higher rates or promotions with verifiable skills
- Networking with other AI-Rails developers
- Joining exclusive community channels for ongoing support
- Accessing templates for proposals, documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Receiving global recognition for your achievement
- Using the certificate to unlock freelance opportunities
- Becoming a trusted advisor on AI integration strategy
- Writing unit tests for AI service wrappers
- Mocking AI responses in RSpec and Minitest
- Testing fallback paths and error recovery
- Validating AI output structure and data types
- Implementing retry logic with exponential backoff
- Graceful degradation when AI services are unavailable
- Benchmarking performance under load
- Using FactoryBot to generate test data for AI scenarios
- Integration testing AI features with full request specs
- Monitoring for degraded AI quality over time
- Detecting concept drift in AI model performance
- Alerting on abnormal error rates or latency spikes
- Creating synthetic test cases for edge behaviours
- Validating outputs against ground truth datasets
- Automated regression testing for prompt updates
Module 9: Security, Privacy, and Compliance - Identifying data leakage risks in AI interactions
- Sanitising user inputs before sending to AI services
- Preventing sensitive data from being exposed to third-party models
- Using data masking and redaction techniques
- Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and other data regulations
- On-premise vs cloud AI processing trade-offs
- Using local models for privacy-sensitive applications
- Creating data processing agreements for AI vendors
- Audit logging for AI data access and usage
- Role-based access control for AI features in Rails
- Securing API endpoints that expose AI capabilities
- Rate limiting to prevent abuse of AI-powered endpoints
- Monitoring for prompt injection and exploit attempts
- Regular security reviews of AI integration points
- Ethical AI use: avoiding bias and ensuring fairness
Module 10: Frontend Integration and User Experience - Streaming AI responses to the frontend with Server-Sent Events
- Displaying partial outputs as they arrive
- Building typing indicators and loading states for AI actions
- Handling interruptions and user cancellations
- Designing UI feedback for low-confidence AI responses
- Enabling user correction and feedback loops
- Allowing users to regenerate or refine AI outputs
- Creating version history for AI-generated content
- Highlighting changes between AI iterations
- Building approval workflows for AI suggestions
- Using Turbo Streams to update UI after AI processing
- Form integration: pre-populating fields with AI predictions
- Real-time collaboration with AI as a copilot
- Accessibility considerations for AI interfaces
- User control: opting in or out of AI features
Module 11: Advanced Patterns and Custom Model Training - When and why to fine-tune versus using pre-trained models
- Preparing datasets for custom model training
- Data annotation best practices for supervised learning
- Using Label Studio and open-source tools for labelling
- Exporting Rails data for training pipelines
- Training sentence transformers for semantic search
- Deploying custom models with Hugging Face
- Using Ruby scripts to interact with training APIs
- Validating model performance on real-world data
- Migrating from prototype to production-ready AI
- Version control for training data and model checkpoints
- Automating retraining with CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring model drift and concept shift
- A/B testing different AI models in production
- Canary releasing new models to subsets of users
Module 12: Real-World Project: AI-Enhanced SaaS Platform - Selecting a project idea: content generator, support assistant, or analytics tool
- Planning features, data models, and AI integration points
- Setting up a new Rails application with AI-ready architecture
- Designing the database schema for AI operations
- Building authentication and role management
- Creating a dashboard for user interaction with AI
- Implementing user input forms with validation
- Connecting to an AI service for text generation
- Storing and retrieving AI responses with metadata
- Adding export functionality for AI results
- Building a credit system for usage tracking
- Integrating with Stripe for billing and subscription management
- Creating admin tools to monitor AI usage patterns
- Adding team collaboration features
- Deploying to production with Render, Fly.io, or AWS
- Performing end-to-end testing of AI workflows
- Documenting the codebase and integration decisions
- Gathering feedback and iterating on improvements
Module 13: Deployment, Monitoring, and Scaling - Configuring production environments for AI stability
- Setting up logging and error tracking with Sentry
- Monitoring AI latency and success rates with Prometheus
- Creating alerts for degraded performance
- Scaling background workers to handle AI queue bursts
- Caching strategies for high-traffic AI applications
- Load testing AI-intensive endpoints
- Database indexing for AI metadata queries
- Using observability tools like Datadog and New Relic
- Managing environment differences across dev, staging, and prod
- Rollback strategies for faulty AI deployments
- Blue-green deployment patterns for zero-downtime updates
- Contingency planning for AI service outages
- Training documentation for team members
- Creating runbooks for common AI issues
Module 14: Career Advancement and Certification - Preparing for the final project submission
- Self-assessing against real-world AI developer standards
- Documenting your learning journey and project outcomes
- Receiving structured feedback on your implementation
- Finalising your project for portfolio presentation
- Writing case studies based on your AI feature builds
- Optimising your GitHub profile for AI-Rails skills
- Crafting compelling resume entries for AI projects
- Updating your LinkedIn to highlight certification and expertise
- Pitching AI enhancements during job interviews
- Negotiating higher rates or promotions with verifiable skills
- Networking with other AI-Rails developers
- Joining exclusive community channels for ongoing support
- Accessing templates for proposals, documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Receiving global recognition for your achievement
- Using the certificate to unlock freelance opportunities
- Becoming a trusted advisor on AI integration strategy
- Streaming AI responses to the frontend with Server-Sent Events
- Displaying partial outputs as they arrive
- Building typing indicators and loading states for AI actions
- Handling interruptions and user cancellations
- Designing UI feedback for low-confidence AI responses
- Enabling user correction and feedback loops
- Allowing users to regenerate or refine AI outputs
- Creating version history for AI-generated content
- Highlighting changes between AI iterations
- Building approval workflows for AI suggestions
- Using Turbo Streams to update UI after AI processing
- Form integration: pre-populating fields with AI predictions
- Real-time collaboration with AI as a copilot
- Accessibility considerations for AI interfaces
- User control: opting in or out of AI features
Module 11: Advanced Patterns and Custom Model Training - When and why to fine-tune versus using pre-trained models
- Preparing datasets for custom model training
- Data annotation best practices for supervised learning
- Using Label Studio and open-source tools for labelling
- Exporting Rails data for training pipelines
- Training sentence transformers for semantic search
- Deploying custom models with Hugging Face
- Using Ruby scripts to interact with training APIs
- Validating model performance on real-world data
- Migrating from prototype to production-ready AI
- Version control for training data and model checkpoints
- Automating retraining with CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring model drift and concept shift
- A/B testing different AI models in production
- Canary releasing new models to subsets of users
Module 12: Real-World Project: AI-Enhanced SaaS Platform - Selecting a project idea: content generator, support assistant, or analytics tool
- Planning features, data models, and AI integration points
- Setting up a new Rails application with AI-ready architecture
- Designing the database schema for AI operations
- Building authentication and role management
- Creating a dashboard for user interaction with AI
- Implementing user input forms with validation
- Connecting to an AI service for text generation
- Storing and retrieving AI responses with metadata
- Adding export functionality for AI results
- Building a credit system for usage tracking
- Integrating with Stripe for billing and subscription management
- Creating admin tools to monitor AI usage patterns
- Adding team collaboration features
- Deploying to production with Render, Fly.io, or AWS
- Performing end-to-end testing of AI workflows
- Documenting the codebase and integration decisions
- Gathering feedback and iterating on improvements
Module 13: Deployment, Monitoring, and Scaling - Configuring production environments for AI stability
- Setting up logging and error tracking with Sentry
- Monitoring AI latency and success rates with Prometheus
- Creating alerts for degraded performance
- Scaling background workers to handle AI queue bursts
- Caching strategies for high-traffic AI applications
- Load testing AI-intensive endpoints
- Database indexing for AI metadata queries
- Using observability tools like Datadog and New Relic
- Managing environment differences across dev, staging, and prod
- Rollback strategies for faulty AI deployments
- Blue-green deployment patterns for zero-downtime updates
- Contingency planning for AI service outages
- Training documentation for team members
- Creating runbooks for common AI issues
Module 14: Career Advancement and Certification - Preparing for the final project submission
- Self-assessing against real-world AI developer standards
- Documenting your learning journey and project outcomes
- Receiving structured feedback on your implementation
- Finalising your project for portfolio presentation
- Writing case studies based on your AI feature builds
- Optimising your GitHub profile for AI-Rails skills
- Crafting compelling resume entries for AI projects
- Updating your LinkedIn to highlight certification and expertise
- Pitching AI enhancements during job interviews
- Negotiating higher rates or promotions with verifiable skills
- Networking with other AI-Rails developers
- Joining exclusive community channels for ongoing support
- Accessing templates for proposals, documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Receiving global recognition for your achievement
- Using the certificate to unlock freelance opportunities
- Becoming a trusted advisor on AI integration strategy
- Selecting a project idea: content generator, support assistant, or analytics tool
- Planning features, data models, and AI integration points
- Setting up a new Rails application with AI-ready architecture
- Designing the database schema for AI operations
- Building authentication and role management
- Creating a dashboard for user interaction with AI
- Implementing user input forms with validation
- Connecting to an AI service for text generation
- Storing and retrieving AI responses with metadata
- Adding export functionality for AI results
- Building a credit system for usage tracking
- Integrating with Stripe for billing and subscription management
- Creating admin tools to monitor AI usage patterns
- Adding team collaboration features
- Deploying to production with Render, Fly.io, or AWS
- Performing end-to-end testing of AI workflows
- Documenting the codebase and integration decisions
- Gathering feedback and iterating on improvements
Module 13: Deployment, Monitoring, and Scaling - Configuring production environments for AI stability
- Setting up logging and error tracking with Sentry
- Monitoring AI latency and success rates with Prometheus
- Creating alerts for degraded performance
- Scaling background workers to handle AI queue bursts
- Caching strategies for high-traffic AI applications
- Load testing AI-intensive endpoints
- Database indexing for AI metadata queries
- Using observability tools like Datadog and New Relic
- Managing environment differences across dev, staging, and prod
- Rollback strategies for faulty AI deployments
- Blue-green deployment patterns for zero-downtime updates
- Contingency planning for AI service outages
- Training documentation for team members
- Creating runbooks for common AI issues
Module 14: Career Advancement and Certification - Preparing for the final project submission
- Self-assessing against real-world AI developer standards
- Documenting your learning journey and project outcomes
- Receiving structured feedback on your implementation
- Finalising your project for portfolio presentation
- Writing case studies based on your AI feature builds
- Optimising your GitHub profile for AI-Rails skills
- Crafting compelling resume entries for AI projects
- Updating your LinkedIn to highlight certification and expertise
- Pitching AI enhancements during job interviews
- Negotiating higher rates or promotions with verifiable skills
- Networking with other AI-Rails developers
- Joining exclusive community channels for ongoing support
- Accessing templates for proposals, documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Receiving global recognition for your achievement
- Using the certificate to unlock freelance opportunities
- Becoming a trusted advisor on AI integration strategy
- Preparing for the final project submission
- Self-assessing against real-world AI developer standards
- Documenting your learning journey and project outcomes
- Receiving structured feedback on your implementation
- Finalising your project for portfolio presentation
- Writing case studies based on your AI feature builds
- Optimising your GitHub profile for AI-Rails skills
- Crafting compelling resume entries for AI projects
- Updating your LinkedIn to highlight certification and expertise
- Pitching AI enhancements during job interviews
- Negotiating higher rates or promotions with verifiable skills
- Networking with other AI-Rails developers
- Joining exclusive community channels for ongoing support
- Accessing templates for proposals, documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Receiving global recognition for your achievement
- Using the certificate to unlock freelance opportunities
- Becoming a trusted advisor on AI integration strategy