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About the Book
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In less than ten years, with fanatical support of a veritable army of open source contributors, Ruby on Rails has forcefully taken its place as the dominant king of web frameworks. It has conquered developer mindshare at startups and enterprises alike with its focus of simplicity, convention and clean, maintainable code. The latest version, Rails 4, continues the tradition of enhanced performance, security and developer productivity, with improvements that enable professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value quickly and consistently.
The Rails™ 4 Way is the only comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails 4.1. Pioneering Rails expert Obie Fernandez and his team of leading Rails experts illuminate the entire set of Rails APIs, along with the idioms, design approaches, and libraries that make developing applications with Rails so powerful. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience and track record, they address the real challenges development teams face, showing how to use Rails to maximize your productivity.
Using numerous detailed code examples, the author systematically cover Rails key capabilities and subsystems, making this book a reference that you depend on everyday. He presents advanced Rails programming techniques that have been proven effective in day-to-day usage on dozens of production Rails systems and offers important insights into behavior-driven development and production considerations such as scalability. Dive deep into the subtleties of the asset pipeline and other advanced Rails topics such as security and scalability. The Rails 4 Way is your best guide for making Rails do exactly what you want it to do.
Notable Changes in the new edition
- Discussion of "omakase" versus "prime" Rails stacks (as advocated by DHH vs TRW, et al)
- Ruby 2.0 support in Rails
- Native support for new Postgres Data types and enhancements in ActiveRecord
- ActiveModel::Model "a really small, handy addition to Rails 4.0, which helps us to get classes that act more like ActiveRecord and easily integrate with ActionPack."
- Asset Pipeline and Sprockets
- Russian Doll-caching through key-based expiration with automatic dependency management of nested templates
- Livestreaming for persistent connections
- Comprehensive coverage of security topics (new chapter, including addition Strong Parameters)
- Changes in HTTP handling in Rails: PATCH vs. PUT
- Turbolinks (and significant updates to the Ajax chapter)
- New comprehensive "Essential Gems" appendix highlighting the best add-on libraries that the Rails ecosystem has to offer
About the Authors
The "one and only" Obie Fernandez is an avid writer and technology enthusiast, in addition to achieving worldwide success as an electronic music producer and touring DJ. He currently serves as Director and Chief Consultant of MagmaLabs, headquartered in Colima, Mexico.
Obie's last jobby job was SVP of Engineering at NYC tech darling 2U. He has been CTO and co-founder of many startups including Mark Zuckerberg's beloved Andela and Trevor Owen's Lean Startup Machine. His published books include the acclaimed business title The Lean Enterprise. He also founded one of the world's best known Ruby on Rails web design and development agencies, Hashrocket and is author of the bible of Rails development, The Rails Way and series editor for Addison-Wesley's Professional Ruby Series.
On the rare occasion when Obie is not busy building products, consulting clients or writing books, you can find him behind the lens of his camera or DJing in the dust at Burning Man.
Follow @obie on Twitter or email him at obiefernandez@gmail.com
Kevin Faustino is the founder and Chief Craftsman of Remarkable Labs, a boutique development agency specializing in Ruby on Rails. His career as a developer began in 2005 and he has been specializing in Ruby since 2008. Kevin is also the founder of the Toronto Ruby Brigade which hosts tech talks, hack nights and book clubs.
Follow @kfaustino on Twitter or email him at kevin@remarkablelabs.com.
Vitaly Kushner is a co-founder of Astrails, the best known Ruby on Rails consulting company in Israel. He has more then 20 years of industry expeerience in a wide range of technologies, from Sinclair Basic to Linux kernel drivers. Vitaly started using Rails in 2005, and it still serves as the primary "weapon" at Astrails for developing web applications and mobile backends.
Vitaly is a public speaker and has been promoting Ruby and Rails in Israel since 2006 when he helped organising and managing first Israeli Ruby Group. Vitaly speaks at conferences and teaches Ruby on Rails courses.
Follow @vkushner on Twitter, check out Astrails blog or email Vitaly at vitaly@astrails.com.