Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1 by Sam Ruby and David Bryant Copeland
Learn Rails the way the Rails core team recommends it, along with the tens of thousands of developers who have used this broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference. If you’re new to Rails, you’ll get step-by-step guidance. If you’re an experienced developer, get the comprehensive, insider information you need for the latest version of Ruby on Rails. The new edition of this award-winning classic is completely updated for Rails 5.1 and Ruby 2.4, with information on system testing, Webpack, and advanced JavaScript.
Agile Web Development with Rails first takes you into the world of Rails (a new Web development framework based on the Ruby language) with a simple Web application, then takes you through some of the details of Rails after you get familiar with it, such as Active Record, Action Controller, etc. Some of the best practices of Rails let readers feel the beauty of Rails to an extreme, and can be well referenced in your own daily development. Eventually, you will realize that Web development can benefit a lot from the application of agile development principles.
Table Of Contents
- Getting Started
- Installing Rails
- Instant Gratification
- The Architecture of Rails Applications
- Introduction to Ruby
- Building an Application
- The Depot Application
- Task A: Creating the Application
- Task B: Validation and Unit Testing
- Task C: Catalog Display
- Task D: Cart Creation
- Task E: A Smarter Cart
- Task F: Add a Dash of Ajax
- Task G: Check Out!
- Task H: Entering Additional Payment Details excerpt
- Task I: Sending Mail
- Task J: Logging In
- Task K: Internationalization
- Task L: Deployment and Production
- Depot Retrospective
- Rails in Depth
- Finding Your Way Around Rails excerpt
- Active Record
- Action Dispatch and Action Controller
- Action View
- Migrations
- Nonbrowser Applications
- Rails’ Dependencies
- Rails Plugins
- Where to Go from Here