Rails 5 Revealed

Authors: Bradburne, Alan
A one of a kind early adopter short book on the new Rails 5 web framework
A practical treatment on using the new Rails 5 as it stands now
A new ActionCable for HTML5 web sockets and faster web linking are covered

This short early adopter book details both how you'll upgrade existing web and other applications from Rails 4.2 to 5 and how to create new applications in Rails 5.
The headline features, Rails API and ActionCable, are each looked at in detail, building small example projects to demonstrate how to build a JSON API, add real-time notifications to a page and how to create a single-page application.
All the breaking changes are shown, along with how to fix your app to work with the new API, and the improvements to ActiveRecord and the testing framework are fully detailed.
After reading and using this book, you'll be poised to move forward with building your apps with the new Rails 5 as it stands now and when it finalizes.

What You'll Learn
What are the new changes to Rails 5 and how to upgrade from Rails 4.2
How to use the new Ruby Persistence tool/framework, ActiveRecord
How to handle test framework changes
What are the latest Rails API and how to employ them
What is and how to use the new ActionCable

AudienceThis short book is aimed at existing Rails developers who are looking to quickly get up to speed with the changes in the new Rails 5 framework.

Number of Illustrations and Tables
2 b/w illustrations
Topics
Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters
Programming Techniques

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