Learning Rails 5

Preface

1. Starting Up Ruby on Rails
-If You Run Windows, You’re Lucky
-Getting Started at the Command Line
-Starting Up Rails
-Test Your Knowledge

2. Rails on the Web
-Creating Your Own View
-What Are All Those Folders?
-Adding Some Data
-How Hello World Works
-Adding Logic to the View
-Test Your Knowledge

3. Adding Web Style
-I Want My CSS!
-Specifying Stylesheets
-Creating a Layout for a Controller
-Choosing a Layout from a Controller
-Sharing Template Data with the Layout
-Setting a Default Page
-Test Your Knowledge

4. Managing Data Flow: Controllers and Models
-Getting Started, Greeting Guests
-Application Flow
-Keeping Track: A Simple Guestbook
-Finding Data with ActiveRecord
-Test Your Knowledge

5. Accelerating Development with Scaffolding and REST
-A First Look at Scaffolding
-REST and Controller Best Practices
-Examining a RESTful Controller
-Escaping the REST Prison
-Test Your Knowledge

6. Presenting Models with Forms
-More Than a Name on a Form
-Generating HTML Forms with Scaffolding
-Form as a Wrapper
-Creating Text Fields and Text Areas
-Labels
-Creating Checkboxes
-Creating Radio Buttons
-Creating Selection Lists
-Dates and Times
-Creating Helper Methods
-Test Your Knowledge

7. Strengthening Models with Validation
-Without Validation
-The Original Model
-The Power of Declarative Validation
-Managing Secrets
-A Place on the Calendar
-Beyond Simple Declarations
-Test Your Knowledge

8. Improving Forms
-Adding a Picture by Uploading a File
-Standardizing Your Look with Form Builders
-Test Your Knowledge

9. Developing Model Relationships
-Connecting Awards to Students
-Connecting Students to Awards
-Nesting Awards in Students
-Many-to-Many: Connecting Students to Courses
-What’s Missing?
-Test Your Knowledge

10. Managing Databases with Migrations
-What Migrations Offer You
-Migration Basics
-Inside Migrations
-Test Your Knowledge

11. Debugging
-Creating Your Own Debugging Messages
-Raising Exceptions
-Logging
-Working with Rails from the Console
-Debug and Debugger
-Test Your Knowledge

12. Testing
-Test Mode
-Testing the Students App
-Setting Up a Test Database with Fixtures
-Model Testing
-Controller Testing
-Integration Testing
-Beyond the Basics
-Test Your Knowledge

13. Sessions and Cookies
-Getting Into and Out of Cookies
-Storing Data Between Sessions
-Test Your Knowledge

14. Users and Authentication
-The Sign-up Process
-Wiring Authentication to Your Application
-Classifying Users
-More Options
-Test Your Knowledge

15. Routing
-Creating Routes to Interpret URIs
-Generating URIs from Views and Controllers
-Infinite Possibilities
-Test Your Knowledge

16. From CSS to Sass
-Getting Started
-Sassy Style
-Making Everything Work Together
-Test Your Knowledge

17. Managing Assets and Bundles
-The Junk Drawer
-Test Your Knowledge

18. Sending Code to the Browser: JavaScript and CoffeeScript
-Sending JavaScript to the Browser
-Simplifying with CoffeeScript
-Test Your Knowledge

19. Mail in Rails
-Sending Mail Messages
-Previewing Mail
-Receiving Mail
-Test Your Knowledge

20. Pushing Further into Rails
-Changing to Production Mode
-Deploying Is Much More Than Programming
-Joining the Rails Ecosystem

Appendix A: An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Ruby
Appendix B: An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Relational Databases
Appendix C: An Incredibly Brief Guide to Regular Expressions
Appendix D: Glossary

Index