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About the Book
Covering new Rails 4 features such as Turbolinks, Live Streaming and Strong Parameters!
Have you been thinking of upgrading your Rails application to Rails 4 but don't know where to start? Are you curious about the new features Rails 4 introduces? Then Upgrade to Rails 4 is the perfect book for you.
Rails 4 introduces an abundance of new features. Learn about these to stay up to date with the latest developments, and modernize your application. All deprecated features will be covered in depth along with an explanation of how to replace them. Using the included checklist, you can verify that you have updated all breaking changes when upgrading your Rails 3 application.
Upgrade to Rails 4 contains more than 32 chapters covering important new and deprecated features in Rails 4.
About the Author
Philip De Smedt is the co-founder of 3bytestrings, a development shop for Ruby on Rails applications. He has a breadth of experience as a lead developer and CTO using technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js and ElasticSearch. He has been heavily involved in the start-up world with his previous company Mashpan. Mashpan was recognized as one of the top 20 tech startups in Europe by business incubator Seedcamp. When he's not developing software, he is cycling or writing on his blog Ruby Snippets.