Get ready to see Rails as you've never seen it before. Learn how to
extend the framework, change its behavior, and replace whole components
to bend it to your will. Eight different test-driven tutorials will help
you understand Rails' inner workings and prepare you to tackle
complicated projects with solutions that are well-tested, modular, and
easy to maintain.
This second edition of the bestselling Crafting Rails Applications has
been updated to Rails 4 and discusses new topics such as streaming,
mountable engines, and thread safety.
Rails is one of the most extensible frameworks out there. This
pioneering book deep-dives into the Rails plugin APIs and shows you, the
intermediate Rails developer, how to use them to write better web
applications and make your day-to-day work with Rails more productive.
Rails Core developer Jose Valim guides you through eight different
tutorials, each using test-driven development to build a new Rails
plugin or application that solves common problems with these APIs.
You'll learn how the Rails rendering stack works and customize it to
read templates from the database while you discover how to mimic Active
Record behavior, such as validations, in any other object. You'll find
out how Rails integrates with Rack, the different ways to stream data
from your web application, and how to mix Rails engines and Sinatra
applications into your Rails apps, so you can choose the most
appropriate tool for the job. In addition, you'll improve your
productivity by customizing generators and responders.
This book will help you understand Rails' inner workings, including
generators, template handlers, internationalization, routing, and
responders. With the knowledge you'll gain, you'll create well-tested,
modular, and robust solutions for your next project.
What You Need
This book requires previous experience with Ruby on Rails.
