Rails 4 Way, The (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

Rails 4 Way, The (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

<B> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The “Bible” 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>