The Rails 4 Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

The Rails 4 Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

<B> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The €œBible€ for Rails Development: Now Fully Updated for Rails 4.1</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </B>"When I read <I>The Rails Way </I>for the first time, I felt like I truly understood Rails for the first time.€</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I>€"From the Foreword by Steve Klabnik</I> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Ruby on Rails 4 is leaner, tighter, and even more valuable to professional web developers. More than ever, it helps you focus on what matters most: delivering business value via clean and maintainable code. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <I> <B>The Rails</B>„<SUP> </SUP> <B>4 Way </B> </I> </B>is the only comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails 4. Kevin Faustino joins pioneering Rails developer Obie Fernandez to illuminate the entire Rails 4 API, including its most powerful and modern idioms, design approaches, and libraries. They present extensive new and updated content on security, performance, caching, Haml, RSpec, Ajax, the Asset Pipeline, and more.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Through detailed code examples, you€ll dive deep into the Rails 4 code base, discover why Rails is designed as it is, and learn how to make it do exactly what you want. Proven in dozens of production systems, this book€s techniques will maximize your productivity and help you build more successful solutions. You€ll want to keep this guide by your computer€"you€ll refer to it constantly.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This guide will help you</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Build powerful, scalable REST-compliant APIs</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Program complex program flows using Action Controller</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Represent models, relationships, CRUD operations, searches, validation, callbacks, and more</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Smoothly evolve application database schema via Migrations</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Apply advanced Active Record techniques: single-table inheritance, polymorphic models, and more</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Create visual elements with Action View and partials</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Optimize performance and scalability with view caching</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Master the highly productive Haml HTML templating engine</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Make the most of Rails€ approach to session management</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Secure your systems with Rails 4€s improved authentication and authorization</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Resist SQL Injection, XSS, XSRF, and other attacks</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Extend Rails with popular gems and plugins, and learn to write your own</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Integrate email services with Action Mailer</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Use Ajax via Rails 4 support for unobtrusive JavaScript</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Improve responsiveness with background processing</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Leverage Asset Pipeline to simplify development, improve perceived performance, and reduce server burdens</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Accelerate implementation and promote maintainability with RSpec</DIV> </LI> </UL>