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. It includes the new ActionCable for HTML5 web sockets; and faster web linking are covered. 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
How to integrate with JavaScript and Turbolinks 3
What is and how to use the new ActionCable
This short early adopter book details both how you'll upgrade existing web applications from Rails 4.2 to 5 and how to create new applications in Rails 5. The headline features, Rails API and Action Cable are each looked at in detail, building small example projects to demonstrate how to build a JSON API and add real-time interactions in order to create a single-page application. All the breaking changes are shown, along with how to fix your app to work with the new release. The improvements to ActiveRecord and the testing framework are fully detailed. After reading and using Rails 5 Revealed, you’ll be poised to move forward with building your apps with the latest major release of Ruby on Rails.
What You'll Learn
Discover the new features in Rails 5 and how to upgrade your application from Rails 4.2
Gain knowledge about the changes to ActiveRecord
See the improvements to the Rails testing framework
Build API servers using Rails API
Create WebSocket applications using Action Cable
Who This Book Is For Existing Rails developers who are looking to quickly get up to speed with the changes in the new Rails 5 framework.
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
A one of a kind early adopter short book on the new Rails 5 web framework
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