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Best Ruby on Rails Books 2024

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is an open-source web application framework that makes use of the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern to assist save Ruby developers’ time. It makes it possible for you to create applications with less code, boosting productivity. Don’t repeat yourself (DRY) and convention over configuration principles can be used by using RoR.

Ruby on Rails Tutorial (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) 7th Edition

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
  • Hartl, Michael (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 896 Pages - 01/01/2023 (Publication Date) - Addison-Wesley Professional (Publisher)

Used by sites as varied as Hulu, GitHub, Shopify, and Airbnb, Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular frameworks for developing web applications, but it can be challenging to learn and use. Whether you’re new to web development or new only to Rails, Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial, Seventh Edition, is the solution.

Best-selling author and leading Rails developer Michael Hartl teaches Rails by guiding you through the development of three example applications of increasing sophistication. The tutorial’s examples focus on the general principles of web development needed for virtually any kind of website. The updates to this edition include full compatibility with Rails 7.

This indispensable guide provides integrated tutorials not only for Rails, but also for the essential Ruby, HTML, CSS, and SQL skills you need when developing web applications. Hartl explains how each new technique solves a real-world problem, and then he demonstrates it with bite-sized code that’s simple enough to understand while still being useful. Whatever your previous web-development experience, this book will guide you to true Rails mastery.

This book will help you

Set up your Rails development environment
Record version changes with Git and create a secure remote repository at GitHub
Deploy your applications early and often with Heroku
Go beyond generated code to truly understand how to build Rails applications from scratch
Learn testing and test-driven development (TDD)
Effectively use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern
Structure applications using the REST architecture
Build static pages and transform them into dynamic ones
Master the Ruby programming skills all Rails developers need
Create high-quality site layouts and data models
Implement registration and authentication systems, including validation and secure passwords
Update, display, and delete users
Upload and display images using Active Storage and Amazon S3
Implement account activation and password reset, including sending email with Rails
Integrate JavaScript with Rails using Importmap
Add social features and microblogging, including an introduction to Hotwire and Turbo

This is the best Ruby On Rails book for beginners in 2023.

Agile Web Development with Rails 7

by Sam Ruby with Dave Thomas. Rails 7 completely redefines what it means to produce fantastic user experiences and provides a way to achieve all the benefits of single-page applications – at a fraction of the complexity. Rails 7 integrates the Hotwire frameworks of Stimulus and Turbo directly as the new defaults, together with that hot newness of import maps. The result is a toolkit so powerful that it allows a single individual to create modern applications upon which they can build a competitive business. The way it used to be.

Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly – you concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details. Rails 7 brings many improvements, and this edition is updated to cover the new features and changes in best practices.

We start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and in-depth chapters look at the built-in Rails features. Follow along with an extended tutorial as you write a web-based store application. Eliminate tedious configuration and housekeeping, seamlessly incorporate JavaScript, send and receive emails, manage background jobs with ActiveJob, and build real-time features using WebSockets and ActionCable. Test your applications as you write them using the built-in unit, integration, and system testing frameworks, internationalize your applications, and deploy your applications easily and securely.

Rails 1.0 was released in December 2005. This book was there from the start, and didn’t just evolve alongside Rails, it evolved with Rails. It has been developed in consultation with the Rails core team. In fact, Rails itself is tested against the code in this book.

Modern Front-End Development for Rails: Hotwire, Stimulus, Turbo, and React

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Modern Front-End Development for Rails: Hotwire, Stimulus, Turbo, and React
  • Rappin, Noel (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 410 Pages - 10/18/2022 (Publication Date) - Pragmatic Bookshelf (Publisher)

Improve the user experience for your Rails app with rich, engaging client-side interactions. Learn to use the Rails 7 tools and simplify the complex JavaScript ecosystem. It’s easier than ever to build user interactions with Hotwire, Turbo, and Stimulus. You can add great front-end flair without much extra complication. Use React to build a more complex set of client-side features. Structure your code for different levels of client-side needs with these powerful options. Add to your toolkit today!

It’s hard to have a Rails application without integrating some client-side logic. But client-side coding tools, and the Rails tools for integrating with them, all change continuously. Rails 7 simplifies client-side integration with the Hotwire gem. It’s a great way to build client interaction with server-side HTML and a small amount of JavaScript.

In the latest edition of this book, learn how to use Rails 7 and its front-end bundling tools to build rich front-end logic into your Rails applications. The job is even easier with Stimulus, a library that brings Rails conventions to JavaScript tools. And you can also add in React, a larger framework that automatically updates the browser when your data changes.

Learn the basics of Turbo, Stimulus, and TypeScript, and add pizazz to your application. Structure your web application to best manage your state. Learn how to interact with data on the server while still keeping the user experience interactive. Use the type system in TypeScript to expand on JavaScript and help prevent error conditions. Debug and test your front-end application with tools specific to each framework.

Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring

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Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)...
  • Pytel / Saleh, Chad Pytel / Tammer Saleh (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 340 Pages - 11/09/2010 (Publication Date) - Addison-Wesley Professional (Publisher)

As developers worldwide have adopted the powerful Ruby on Rails web framework, many have fallen victim to common mistakes that reduce code quality, performance, reliability, stability, scalability, and maintainability. Rails™ AntiPatternsidentifies these widespread Rails code and design problems, explains why they’re bad and why they happen—and shows exactly what to do instead.

The book is organized into concise, modular chapters—each outlines a single common AntiPattern and offers detailed, cookbook-style code solutions that were previously difficult or impossible to find. Leading Rails developers Chad Pytel and Tammer Saleh also offer specific guidance for refactoring existing bad code or design to reflect sound object-oriented principles and established Rails best practices. With their help, developers, architects, and testers can dramatically improve new and existing applications, avoid future problems, and establish superior Rails coding standards throughout their organizations.

This book will help you understand, avoid, and solve problems with

Model layer code, from general object-oriented programming violations to complex SQL and excessive redundancy
Domain modeling, including schema and database issues such as normalization and serialization
View layer tools and conventions
Controller-layer code, including RESTful code
Service-related APIs, including timeouts, exceptions, backgrounding, and response codes
Third-party code, including plug-ins and gems
Testing, from test suites to test-driven development processes
Scaling and deployment
Database issues, including migrations and validations
System design for “graceful degradation” in the real world

Component-Based Rails Applications: Large Domains Under Control

Component-Based Rails Applications: Large Domains Under Control (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby...
  • Hagemann, Stephan (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 304 Pages - 06/22/2018 (Publication Date) - Addison-Wesley Professional (Publisher)

As Rails applications grow, even experienced developers find it difficult to navigate code bases, implement new features, and keep tests fast. Components are the solution, and Component-Based Rails Applications shows how to make the most of them. Writing for programmers and software team leads who are comfortable with Ruby and Rails, Stephan Hagemann introduces a practical, start-to-finish methodology for modernizing and restructuring existing Rails applications.

One step at a time, Hagemann demonstrates how to revamp Rails applications to exhibit visible, provably independent, and explicitly connected parts–thereby simplifying them and making them far easier for teams to manage, change, and test. Throughout, he introduces design concepts and techniques you can use to improve applications of many kinds, even if they weren’t built with Rails or Ruby.

Learn how components clarify intent, improve collaboration, and simplify innovation and maintenance
Create a full Rails application within a component, from first steps to migrations and dependency management
Test component-based applications, manage assets and dependencies, and deploy your application to production
Identify the seams in an existing Rails application, and refactor it to extract components
Master a scripted, repeatable approach for refactoring Rails applications of any size
Use component-based Rails with two popular structural patterns: hexagonal and DCI architecture
Leverage your new component skills with other frameworks and languages
Overcome the unique challenges that arise as you componentize Rails applications

If you’re ready to simplify and revitalize your complex Rails systems, you’re ready for Component-Based Rails Applications.

Beginning Rails 6: From Novice to Professional 4th Edition

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Beginning Rails 6: From Novice to Professional
  • Somerville, Brady (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 590 Pages - 07/23/2020 (Publication Date) - Apress (Publisher)

by Brady Somerville, Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr., Rida Al Barazi guides you through the process of creating your application, writing tests for it, and then writing the code to make it operate as planned. It’s a book that will take you from having never programming in Ruby before to building and deploying a Rails 6 application to the web. You’ll learn:

Create web applications with Ruby on Rails 6 from the ground up.
Learn the fundamentals of Ruby programming.
Combine all of Rails’ components to create your own web applications.
Use TDD to ensure that your application performs as expected.
To design applications like a pro, use Git source control and best practice practices.

The Rails 5 Way

Rails 5 Way, The (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
  • Fernandez, Obie (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 1088 Pages - 11/14/2017 (Publication Date) - Addison-Wesley Professional (Publisher)

Rails 5 Way is the comprehensive and authoritative reference guide for professionals providing production quality code using modern Ruby on Rails. Obie Fernandez sheds light on the entire Rails 5 API, its most powerful idioms, design approaches, and libraries. It features new and updated content on Action Cable, RSpec 3.4, Turbolinks 5.0, the Attributes API, and many other improvements, both important and subtle.

Through step-by-step code examples, you will immerse yourself in Ruby on Rails, discover why it is designed the way it is, and learn how to make it do exactly what you want. Tested on thousands of production systems, knowledge in this book will help experienced developers maximize productivity and help you create more efficient solutions with what you already know. You will:

Build powerful, scalable, REST-compliant back-end services
Program complex program flows using Action Controller
Represent models, relationships, and operations in Active Record, and apply advanced Active Record techniques
Smoothly evolve database schema via Migrations
Craft front-ends with ActionView and the Asset Pipeline
Optimize performance and scalability with caching and Turbolinks 5.0
Improve your productivity using Haml HTML templating
Secure your systems against attacks like SQL Injection, XSS, and XSRF
Integrate email using Action Mailer
Enable real-time, websockets-based browser behavior with Action Cable
Improve responsiveness with background processing
Build “API-only” back-end projects that speak JSON
Leverage enhancements to Active Job, serialization, and Ajax support

Rails 5 Test Prescriptions: Build a Healthy Codebase

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Rails 5 Test Prescriptions: Build a Healthy Codebase
  • Rappin, Noel (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 406 Pages - 03/27/2018 (Publication Date) - Pragmatic Bookshelf (Publisher)

Does your Rails code suffer from bloat, brittleness, or inaccuracy? Cure these problems with the regular application of test-driven development. You’ll use Rails 5.1, Minitest 5, and RSpec 3.6, as well as popular testing libraries such as factory_girl and Cucumber. Updates include Rails 5.1 system tests and Webpack integration. Do what the doctor ordered to make your applications feel all better. Side effects may include better code, fewer bugs, and happier developers.

Your Ruby on Rails application is sick. Deadlines are looming, but every time you make the slightest change to the code, something else breaks. Nobody remembers what that tricky piece of code was supposed to do, and nobody can tell what it actually does. Plus, it has bugs. You need test-driven development: a process for improving the design, maintainability, and long-term viability of software.

With both practical code examples and discussion of why testing works, this book starts with the most basic features delivered as part of core Ruby on Rails. Once you’ve integrated those features into your coding practice, work with popular third-party testing tools such as RSpec, Jasmine, Cucumber, and factory_girl. Test the component parts of a Rails application, including the back-end model logic and the front-end display logic. With Rails examples, use testing to enable your code to respond better to future change. Plus, see how to handle real-world testing situations. This new edition has been updated to Rails 5.1 and RSpec 3.6 and contains full coverage of new Rails features, including system tests and the Webpack-based JavaScript setup.

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