Agile Web Development with Rails 5

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Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2016 - Computers - 451 pages
"Rails 5 and Ruby 2.2 bring many improvements, including new APIs and substantial performance enhancements. Learn Rails the way the Rails core team recommends it, along with the tens of thousands of developers who have read this award-winning classic. Start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a web-based store application and finish with in-depth chapters that cover key Rails features. Eliminate tedious configuration and housekeeping; internationalize your appplications; incorporate Ajas, REST, web serives, and e-mail handling; test your applications as you write them using the built-in testing frameworks; and deploy easily and securely. New in this edition is coverage of Action Cable, and completely updated code for Rails 5. If you're new to Rails, you'll get step-by-step guidance. If you're an experienced developer, this book will give you the comprehensive, insider information you need."--

About the author (2016)

Sam Ruby has co-chaired the W3C HTML Working Group and has made significant contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source software projects. He is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM.