The “Bible” for Rails Development: Fully Updated for Rails 5 “When I read The Rails Way for the first time, I felt like I truly understood Rails for the first time.” —Steve Klabnik, Rails contributor and mentor The Rails™ 5 Way is the comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for professionals delivering production-quality code using modern Ruby on Rails. Obie Fernandez illuminates the entire Rails 5 API, its most powerful idioms, design approaches, and libraries. He presents new and updated content on Action Cable, RSpec 3.4, Turbolinks 5.0, the Attributes API, and many other enhancements, both major and subtle. Through detailed code examples, you’ll dive deep into Ruby on Rails, discover why it’s designed as it is, and learn to make it do exactly what you want. Proven in thousands of production systems, the knowledge in this book will maximize your productivity and help you build more successful solutions. <ul>
<li>Build powerful, scalable, REST-compliant back-end services</li> <li>Program complex program flows using Action Controller</li> <li>Represent models, relationships, and operations in Active Record, and apply advanced Active Record techniques</li> <li>Smoothly evolve database schema via Migrations</li> <li>Craft front-ends with ActionView and the Asset Pipeline</li> <li>Optimize performance and scalability with caching and Turbolinks 5.0</li> <li>Improve your productivity using Haml HTML templating</li> <li>Secure your systems against attacks like SQL Injection, XSS, and XSRF</li> <li>Integrate email using Action Mailer</li> <li>Enable real-time, websockets-based browser behavior with Action Cable</li> <li>Improve responsiveness with background processing</li> <li>Build “API-only” back-end projects that speak JSON</li> <li>Leverage enhancements to Active Job, serialization, and Ajax support</li> </ul>

Rails 5 Way, The (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

Computers & Technology

Fernandez, Obie

Programming Languages

Addison-Wesley Professional

The expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value. Now, for the first time, there’s a comprehensive, authoritative guide to building production-quality software with Rails. Pioneering Rails developer Obie Fernandez and a team of experts illuminate the entire Rails API, along with the Ruby idioms, design approaches, libraries, and plug-ins that make Rails so valuable. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, they address the real challenges development teams face, showing how to use Rails’ tools and best practices to maximize productivity and build polished applications users will enjoy. Using detailed code examples, Obie systematically covers Rails’ key capabilities and subsystems. He presents advanced programming techniques, introduces open source libraries that facilitate easy Rails adoption, and offers important insights into testing and production deployment. Dive deep into the Rails codebase together, discovering why Rails behaves as it does– and how to make it behave the way you want it to. This book will help you Increase your productivity as a web developer Realize the overall joy of programming with Ruby on Rails Learn what’s new in Rails 2.0 Drive design and protect long-term maintainability with TestUnit and RSpec Understand and manage complex program flow in Rails controllers Leverage Rails’ support for designing REST-compliant APIs Master sophisticated Rails routing concepts and techniques Examine and troubleshoot Rails routing Make the most of ActiveRecord object-relational mapping Utilize Ajax within your Rails applications Incorporate logins and authentication into your application Extend Rails with the best third-party plug-ins and write your own Integrate email services into your applications with ActionMailer Choose the right Rails production configurations Streamline deployment with Capistrano

The Rails Way

Web Development & Design

The Rails™ 3 Way is a comprehensive resource that digs into the new features in Rails 3 and perhaps more importantly, the rationale behind them. —Yehuda Katz, Rails Core The Bible for Ruby on Rails Application Development Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value via clean and maintainable code. The Rails™ 3 Way is the only comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails 3. Pioneering Rails expert Obie Fernandez and a team of leading experts illuminate the entire Rails 3 API, 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 3 to maximize your productivity. Using numerous detailed code examples, the author systematically covers Rails 3 key capabilities and subsystems, making this book a reference that you will turn to again and again. 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 Rails 3 codebase and discover why Rails is designed the way it is—and how to make it do what you want it to do. This book will help you <ul>
<li>Learn what’s new in Rails 3 </li> <li>Increase your productivity as a web application developer </li> <li>Realize the overall joy in programming with Rails </li> <li>Leverage Rails’ powerful capabilities for building REST-compliant APIs </li> <li>Drive implementation and protect long-term maintainability using RSpec </li> <li>Design and manipulate your domain layer using Active Record </li> <li>Understand and program complex program flows using Action Controller </li> <li>Master sophisticated URL routing concepts </li> <li>Use Ajax techniques via Rails 3 support for unobtrusive JavaScript </li> <li>Learn to extend Rails with popular gems and plugins, and how to write your own </li> <li>Extend Rails with the best third-party plug-ins and write your own </li> <li>Integrate email services into your applications with Action Mailer </li> <li>Improve application responsiveness with background processing </li> <li>Create your own non-Active Record domain classes using Active Model </li> <li>Master Rails’ utility classes and extensions in Active Support </li> </ul>

The Rails 3 Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

Programming

The “Bible” for Rails Development: Now Fully Updated for Rails 4.1 "When I read The Rails Way for the first time, I felt like I truly understood Rails for the first time.” —From the Foreword by Steve Klabnik Ruby on Rails 4 is leaner, tighter, and even more valuable to professional web developers. More than ever, it helps you focus on what matters most: delivering business value via clean and maintainable code. The Rails™4 Way is the only comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails 4. Kevin Faustino joins pioneering Rails developer Obie Fernandez to illuminate the entire Rails 4 API, including its most powerful and modern idioms, design approaches, and libraries. They present extensive new and updated content on security, performance, caching, Haml, RSpec, Ajax, the Asset Pipeline, and more. Through detailed code examples, you’ll dive deep into the Rails 4 code base, discover why Rails is designed as it is, and learn how to make it do exactly what you want. Proven in dozens of production systems, this book’s techniques will maximize your productivity and help you build more successful solutions. You’ll want to keep this guide by your computer—you’ll refer to it constantly. This guide will help you <ul>
<li> Build powerful, scalable REST-compliant APIs </li>
<li> Program complex program flows using Action Controller </li>
<li> Represent models, relationships, CRUD operations, searches, validation, callbacks, and more </li>
<li> Smoothly evolve application database schema via Migrations </li>
<li> Apply advanced Active Record techniques: single-table inheritance, polymorphic models, and more </li>
<li> Create visual elements with Action View and partials </li>
<li> Optimize performance and scalability with view caching </li>
<li> Master the highly productive Haml HTML templating engine </li>
<li> Make the most of Rails’ approach to session management </li>
<li> Secure your systems with Rails 4’s improved authentication and authorization </li>
<li> Resist SQL Injection, XSS, XSRF, and other attacks </li>
<li> Extend Rails with popular gems and plugins, and learn to write your own </li>
<li> Integrate email services with Action Mailer </li>
<li> Use Ajax via Rails 4 support for unobtrusive JavaScript </li>
<li> Improve responsiveness with background processing </li>
<li> Leverage Asset Pipeline to simplify development, improve perceived performance, and reduce server burdens </li>
<li> Accelerate implementation and promote maintainability with RSpec </li> </ul>

The Rails 4 Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

Faustino, Kevin

#1 Best Seller in Lean Management The first and most comprehensive book on bringing the startup mindset into large organizations. Forget vague notions of creating an "innovative culture." This book reveals the methodologies, tools, and incentive structures guiding the world's largest organizations to reclaim their innovation prowess. Even in a tough economic climate, small startups have found ways to create innovative products in shockingly short timeframes. So why should larger, more established companies take notice? Because they have everything to gain when they examine and adopt the process, strategies, and mentality of high-growth startups. The guidelines in this book will help companies shake the lethargy, bureaucracy, and power struggles that plague large organizations. Respected thought leaders in lean startup methodologies, Owens and Fernandez cover successful enterprise product development, establishment of innovation labs, and acquisition and integration of startups. <ul>
<li>Essential reading for product managers, directors, senior executives, and even board members of Fortune 2000 companies</li>
<li>Presents the tools and methodologies large businesses need to compete with a new generation of highly-empowered startups</li>
<li>Identifies the forces that stunt growth in large enterprises</li>
<li>Offers a comprehensive approach for developing exciting products and opening vast new markets</li>
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The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups

Business & Money

Owens, Trevor

Management & Leadership

wiley

Patterns of Application Development Using AI

Computer Science

Independently published

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