Rails 4 in Action: Revised Edition of Rails 3 in Action

800 Pages·2015·4.48 MB·English

by  Ryan Bigg

Rails 4 in Action: Revised Edition of
Rails 3 in Action
Ryan Bigg, Yehuda Katz, Steve Klabnik, and Rebecca Skinner
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Brief Table of Contents
Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Praise for Rails 3 in Action
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
Chapter 1. Ruby on Rails, the framework
Chapter 2. Testing saves your bacon
Chapter 3. Developing a real Rails application
Chapter 4. Oh, CRUD!
Chapter 5. Nested resources
Chapter 6. Authentication
Chapter 7. Basic access control
Chapter 8. Fine-grained access control
Chapter 9. File uploading
Chapter 10. Tracking state
Chapter 11. Tagging
Chapter 12. Sending email
Chapter 13. Deployment
Chapter 14. Designing an API
Chapter 15. Rack-based applications
Appendix A. Installation guide
Appendix B. Why Rails?
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings
Table of Contents
Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Praise for Rails 3 in Action
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
Chapter 1. Ruby on Rails, the framework
1.1. Ruby on Rails overview
1.1.1. Benefits
1.1.2. Ruby gems
1.1.3. Common terms
1.1.4. Rails in the wild
1.2. Developing your first application
1.2.1. Installing Rails
1.2.2. Generating an application
1.2.3. Starting the application
1.2.4. Scaffolding
1.2.5. Migrations
1.2.6. Viewing and creating purchases
1.2.7. Validations
1.2.8. Routing
1.2.9. Updating
1.2.10. Deleting
1.3. Summary
Chapter 2. Testing saves your bacon
2.1. Using TDD and BDD to save your bacon
2.2. Test-driven development basics
2.2.1. Writing your first test
2.2.2. Saving bacon
2.3. Behavior-driven development basics
2.3.1. Introducing RSpec
2.3.2. Writing your first spec
2.3.3. Running the spec
2.3.4. Much more bacon
2.3.5. Expiring bacon
2.4. Summary
Chapter 3. Developing a real Rails application
3.1. First steps
3.1.1. The application story
3.1.2. Laying the foundations
3.2. Version control
3.2.1. Getting started with GitHub
3.2.2. Configuring your Git client
3.3. Application configuration
3.3.1. The Gemfile and generators
3.3.2. Database configuration
3.4. Beginning your first feature
3.4.1. Creating projects
3.4.2. Defining a controller action
3.4.3. RESTful routing
3.4.4. Committing changes
3.4.5. Setting a page title
3.4.6. Validations
3.5. Summary
Chapter 4. Oh, CRUD!
4.1. Viewing projects
4.1.1. Introducing Factory Girl
4.1.2. Adding a link to a project
4.2. Editing projects
4.2.1. The edit action
4.2.2. The update action
4.3. Deleting projects
4.4. What happens when things can’t be found
4.4.1. Visualizing the error
4.4.2. Handling the ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception
4.5. Styling the application
4.5.1. Installing Bootstrap
4.5.2. Improving the page’s header
4.5.3. Improving the show view
4.5.4. Semantic styling
4.5.5. Using Simple Form
4.5.6. Adding a navigation bar
4.5.7. Responsive styling
4.6. Summary
Chapter 5. Nested resources
5.1. Creating tickets
5.1.1. Nested routing helpers
5.1.2. Creating a tickets controller
5.1.3. Demystifying the new action
5.1.4. Defining a has_many association
5.1.5. Creating tickets in a project
5.1.6. Finding tickets scoped by project
5.1.7. Ticket validations
5.2. Viewing tickets
5.2.1. Listing tickets
5.2.2. Culling tickets
5.3. Editing tickets
5.3.1. The ticket-editing spec
5.3.2. Adding the edit action
5.3.3. Adding the update action
5.4. Deleting tickets
5.5. Summary
Chapter 6. Authentication
6.1. Using Devise
6.2. Adding sign-up
6.3. Adding sign-in and sign-out
6.3.1. Adding sign-in
6.3.2. Adding sign-out
6.3.3. Styling the Devise views
6.4. Linking tickets to users