- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About this book
- Who should read this book
- What’s new in the second edition
- Roadmap
- 1. Ruby on Rails, the framework
- 1.1. Ruby on Rails overview
- 1.2. Rails from first principles
- 1.3. Takeaways
- 1.4. Summary
- 2. Writing automated tests
- 2.1. Installing and setting up RSpec
- 2.2. Writing our first feature test
- 2.3. Writing a second scenario
- 2.4. Takeaway
- 2.5. Summary
- 3. Developing a real Rails application
- 3.1. First steps
- 3.2. Version control
- 3.3. Application configuration
- 3.4. Beginning your first feature
- 3.5. Takeaways
- 3.6. Summary
- 4. Oh, CRUD!
- 4.1. Viewing projects
- 4.2. Editing projects
- 4.3. Deleting projects
- 4.4. What happens when things can’t be found
- 4.5. Summary
- 5. Nested resources
- 5.1. Creating tickets
- 5.2. Viewing tickets
- 5.3. Editing tickets
- 5.4. Deleting tickets
- 5.5. Summary
- 6. Styling the application
- 6.1. Installing Bootstrap
- 6.2. Improving the page’s header
- 6.3. Semantic styling
- 6.4. Using Bootstrap Form
- 6.5. Adding a navigation bar
- 6.6. More responsive styling
- 7. Authentication
- 7.1. Using Devise
- 7.2. Adding sign up
- 7.3. Adding sign in and sign out
- 7.4. Linking tickets to users
- 7.5. Summary
- 8. Basic access control
- 8.1. Turning users into admins
- 8.2. Controller namespacing
- 8.3. Hiding links
- 8.4. Namespace-based CRUD
- 8.5. Summary
- 9. File uploading
- 9.1. Attaching a file
- 9.2. Attaching many files
- 9.3. Serving files through a controller
- 9.4. Using JavaScript
- 9.5. Responding to an asynchronous request
- 9.6. Summary
- 10. Tracking state
- 10.1. Leaving a comment
- 10.2. Changing a ticket’s state
- 10.3. Tracking changes
- 10.4. Managing states
- 10.5. Summary
- 11. Sending email
- 11.1. Sending ticket notifications
- 11.2. Testing with mailer specs
- 11.3. Subscribing to updates
- 11.4. Summary
- 12. Tagging
- 12.1. Creating tags
- 12.2. Editing tags
- 12.3. Deleting a tag
- 12.4. Finding tags
- 12.5. Summary
- 13. Deployment
- 13.1. What is deployment?
- 13.2. Simple deployment with Heroku
- 13.3. Twelve-factor apps
- 13.4. Deploying Ticketee
- 13.5. Continuous deployment with Travis CI
- 13.6. Sending emails
- 13.7. Summary
- Appendix A: Installation Guide
- Windows
- Mac OS X
- Linux
- Appendix B: Why Rails?
- Reason #1: The sense of community
- Reason #2: The speed and ease of development
- Reason #3: RubyGems
- Reason #4: Emphasis on Testing
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About the Book
This book will teach you the fundamentals of building a Rails application from the ground-up, complete with strict adherence to TDD and BDD.
Earlier editions of this book have been used by thousands of people to help their Ruby on Rails careers.
This book will show you how to build a fully-featured Rails 6 application that includes:
- CSS styles
- Authentication & Authorization
- File uploading
- Sending & receiving email
- Deployment
This book follows community-approved standards of developing a Rails application. We use RSpec and Capybara for testing, Bootstrap for styling, and Devise for authentication. There's also Active Storage for file loading, Action Mailer for sending email and Heroku for deployment.
Knowledge pre-requisites
This book assumes knowledge of HTML, CSS and some Ruby. No Rails knowledge is required for this book; we'll teach you what you need to know!
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Ryan Bigg
Ryan has been writing books and documentation for programming languages for over a decade. These books have sold over 20,000 copies worldwide.
Ryan lives in the lovely coastal town of Warrnambool, Australia.
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Rebecca Le
With over twenty years of experience building websites and web apps, and with a love of the written word, Rebecca has now found a way to combine the two.
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Robin is a junior web developer with a plethora of life skills. Writing has been a passion since childhood. Creative writing has been her main focus with personal short stories, but is now able to bring that passion into the dev world as well.
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