Creating Long-Lived Web Apps with Ruby on Rails/

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Creating a Rails App

Learn about Rails app setup, developer workflow, and key considerations for security and production configuration.

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Setting up a Ruby on Rails app

The following command is pretty powerful. It immediately creates a ready-to-go Rails application but doesn’t completely set us up for sustainable development.

rails new

We know a few things about our app right now:

Other developers will work on it and need to be able to set it up, run its tests, and run it locally.
It will eventually have security vulnerabilities (in our code and in our dependencies).
It will be deployed into production via a continuous integration pipeline and require operational observability.

Given the assumptions we listed in the first chapter, we are also quite confident that the app will get more complex ...

Prologue

Getting Started

The Rails Application Architecture

Start Our App Off Right

Business Logic

Routes and URLs

HTML Templates

Helpers

CSS

Minimize JavaScript

Carefully Manage the JavaScript We Need

Testing the View

Models I

The Database

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Business Logic Code is a Seam

Models II

End-to-End Testing

Controllers

Jobs

Other Boundary Classes

Authentication and Authorization beyond Rails

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API Endpoints

Sustainable Process and Workflows

Operations

Conclusion

Appendices

Creating a Rails App