The Rails 5 Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

Obie Fernandez

ISBN 10: 0134657675 / ISBN 13: 9780134657677

Published by Pearson Education (US), United States, Boston, 2017

About this Item

The Bible for Rails Development: Fully Updated for Rails 5 When I read The Rails Way for the first time, I felt like I truly understood Rails for the first time. Steve Klabnik, Rails contributor and mentor The Rails 5 Way is the comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for professionals delivering production-quality code using modern Ruby on Rails. Obie Fernandez illuminates the entire Rails 5 API, its most powerful idioms, design approaches, and libraries. He presents new and updated content on Action Cable, RSpec 3.4, Turbolinks 5.0, the Attributes API, and many other enhancements, both major and subtle. Through detailed code examples, youll dive deep into Ruby on Rails, discover why its designed as it is, and learn to make it do exactly what you want. Proven in thousands of production systems, the knowledge in this book will maximize your productivity and help you build more successful solutions. Build powerful, scalable, REST-compliant back-end services Program complex program flows using Action Controller Represent models, relationships, and operations in Active Record, and apply advanced Active Record techniques Smoothly evolve database schema via Migrations Craft front-ends with ActionView and the Asset Pipeline Optimize performance and scalability with caching and Turbolinks 5.0 Improve your productivity using Haml HTML templating Secure your systems against attacks like SQL Injection, XSS, and XSRF Integrate email using Action Mailer Enable real-time, websockets-based browser behavior with Action Cable Improve responsiveness with background processing Build API-only back-end projects that speak JSON Leverage enhancements to Active Job, serialization, and Ajax support. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rails 5 Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
• Publisher: Pearson Education (US), United States, Boston
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0134657675
• ISBN 13: 9780134657677
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1320 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The “Bible” for Rails Development: Fully Updated for Rails 5

“When I read The Rails Way for the first time, I felt like I truly understood Rails for the first time.”

―Steve Klabnik, Rails contributor and mentor

The RailsTM 5 Way is the comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for professionals delivering production-quality code using modern Ruby on Rails. Obie Fernandez illuminates the entire Rails 5 API, its most powerful idioms, design approaches, and libraries. He presents new and updated content on Action Cable, RSpec 3.4, Turbolinks 5.0, the Attributes API, and many other enhancements, both major and subtle.

Through detailed code examples, you’ll dive deep into Ruby on Rails, discover why it’s designed as it is, and learn to make it do exactly what you want. Proven in thousands of production systems, the knowledge in this book will maximize your productivity and help you build more successful solutions.

• Build powerful, scalable, REST-compliant back-end services
• Program complex program flows using Action Controller
• Represent models, relationships, and operations in Active Record, and apply advanced Active Record techniques
• Smoothly evolve database schema via Migrations
• Craft front-ends with ActionView and the Asset Pipeline
• Optimize performance and scalability with caching and Turbolinks 5.0
• Improve your productivity using Haml HTML templating
• Secure your systems against attacks like SQL Injection, XSS, and XSRF
• Integrate email using Action Mailer
• Enable real-time, websockets-based browser behavior with Action Cable
• Improve responsiveness with background processing
• Build “API-only” back-end projects that speak JSON
• Leverage enhancements to Active Job, serialization, and Ajax support

About the Author

Obie Fernandez resides in Mexico City and runs a boutique tech consultancy. He makes his living as an author and by helping clients to build kickass web software. Early in his career, he worked on some of the world’s first Java enterprise projects and founded Atlanta’s Extreme Programming User Group (later Agile Atlanta). At ThoughtWorks and his own agency Hashrocket, he led high-risk projects for massive companies like Daimler, John Deere, and Sony Ericsson, delivering some of the world’s first successful enterprise Ruby on Rails systems. More recently, he has founded or consulted many successful technology startups, including Andela, which is well on its way to training 100,000 brilliant young Africans to become the world’s next generation of technology leaders. His previous books include The Lean Enterprise and Serverless.