Creating Long-Lived Web Apps with Ruby on Rails

Create Useful Seed Data for Development

Explore how to create valuable seed data for Rails development by using Factory Bot and Faker. Understand the importance of idempotent seeds, scoped to development only, to facilitate manual UI testing and consistent app states.

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1.Prologue

2.Getting Started

3.The Rails Application Architecture

4.Start Our App Off Right

5.Business Logic

6.Routes and URLs

7.HTML Templates

8.Helpers

9.CSS

10.Minimize JavaScript

11.Carefully Manage the JavaScript We Need

12.Testing the View

13.Models I

14.The Database

Project

15.Business Logic Code is a Seam

16.Models II

17.End-to-End Testing

18.Controllers

19.Jobs

20.Other Boundary Classes

21.Authentication and Authorization beyond Rails

Project

22.API Endpoints

23.Sustainable Process and Workflows

24.Operations

25.Conclusion

26.Appendices

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