The Rails 7 Way

Foreword

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. About This Book
2. Voices from other experts
3. Goals
4. Prerequisites
5. Book Structure
6. Licenses, Attributions and Trademark Notice

Rails Configuration and Environments

1. Generating a new Rails Application
2. Bundler
3. RSpec and Haml
4. Running a Rails application
5. Default Initializers
6. Other Common Settings
7. Zeitwerk
8. Development Mode
9. Test Mode
10. Production Mode
11. Configuring Application Secrets
12. Configuring a Database
13. Logging
14. Default Gems
15. Rack
16. Conclusion

Routing

1. The Two Purposes of Routing
2. The routes.rb File
3. Named Routes
4. Scoping Routing Rules
5. Listing Routes
6. Conclusion

REST, Resources, and Rails

1. REST in a Rather Small Nutshell
2. Resources and Representations
3. REST in Rails
4. Routing and CRUD
5. The Standard RESTful Controller Actions
6. Singular Resource Routes
7. Nested Resources
8. Routing Concerns
9. RESTful Route Customizations
10. Controller-Only Resources
11. Different Representations of Resources
12. The RESTful Rails Action Set
13. Conclusion

Working with Controllers

1. Action Dispatch: Where It All Begins
2. Parameters
3. Render onto View…
4. Additional Layout Options
5. Redirecting
6. Controller/View Communication
7. Action Callbacks
8. Streaming
9. The respond_to Method
10. Conclusion

Cookies, Session Management and the Flash

1. Cookies
2. Session
3. The Flash
4. What to Store in a Cookie
5. What to Store in the Session
6. Conclusion

Action View & Haml

1. Haml
2. Layouts and Templates
3. Partials
4. Conclusion

Active Record Migrations

1. Creating Migrations
2. Defining Columns
3. Data Migration
4. Database Schema and Sequencing
5. Database Seeding
6. Database-Related Tasks
7. Conclusion

Working with Active Record

1. The Basics
2. Macro-Style Methods
3. Defining Attributes
4. CRUD: Creating, Reading, Updating, Deleting
5. Database Locking
6. Ignoring Columns
7. Connections to Multiple Databases
8. Using the Database Connection Directly
9. Convention over Configuration
10. Conclusion

Active Record Associations

1. The Association Hierarchy
2. One-to-Many Relationships
3. Belongs to Associations
4. Has Many Associations
5. Many-to-Many Relationships
6. One-to-One Relationships
7. Working with Unsaved Objects and Associations
8. Association Extensions
9. The CollectionProxy Class
10. Conclusion

Working with Queries

1. Query Methods
2. Custom SQL Queries
3. Scopes
4. Query Log Tags
5. Conclusion

Validations

1. Finding Errors
2. Included Validations
3. Common Validation Options
4. Conditional Validation
5. Short-form Validation
6. Custom Validation Techniques
7. Skipping Validations
8. Working with the Errors object
9. Conclusion

Advanced Active Record

1. Polymorphic has_many Relationships
2. Modules for Reusing Common Behavior
3. Delegated Types
4. Non-Persisted Models
5. Callbacks
6. Attributes API
7. Serialized Attributes
8. Enums
9. Generating Secure Tokens
10. Calculation Methods
11. Batch Operations
12. Single-Table Inheritance (STI)
13. Abstract Base Model Classes
14. Foreign-key Constraints
15. Value Objects
16. Modifying Active Record Classes at Runtime
17. PostgreSQL
18. Other Connection Methods
19. Conclusion

Forms

1. The basics of form_with
2. FormOptionsHelper
3. The Date and Time Selection Helpers
4. Conclusion

Internationalization

1. Localized Views
2. I18n Setup
3. Setting and Passing the Locale
4. Setting Locale from Client Supplied Information
5. Internationalizing Your Application
6. Organization of Locale Files
7. Looking Up Translations
8. How to Store Your Custom Translations
9. Exception Handling
10. Conclusion

All About Helpers

1. AssetTagHelper
2. AssetUrlHelper
3. AtomFeedHelper
4. CacheHelper
5. CaptureHelper
6. ControllerHelper
7. CspHelper
8. CsrfHelper
9. DateHelper
10. DebugHelper
11. FormHelper, FormOptionsHelper and FormTagHelper
12. JavaScriptHelper
13. NumberHelper
14. OutputSafetyHelper
15. RenderingHelper
16. SanitizeHelper
17. TagHelper
18. TextHelper
19. TranslationHelper
20. UrlHelper
21. Writing Your Own View Helpers
22. Wrapping and Generalizing Partials
23. Conclusion

Authentication and Authorization

1. Warden
2. Devise
3. has_secure_password
4. Pundit
5. Conclusion

Security

1. Password Management
2. Log Masking
3. TLS (Transport Layer Security)
4. Model Mass-assignment Attributes Protection
5. SQL Injection
6. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
7. CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
8. Content Security Policy
9. Permissions Policy
10. Session Fixation Attacks
11. Conclusion

Caching and Performance

1. View Caching
2. Data Caching
3. Control of Web Caching
4. ETags
5. Conclusion

RSpec

1. Introduction
2. Behavior-Driven Development
3. Basic Syntax and API
4. Custom Expectation Matchers
5. Helper Methods
6. Shared Behaviors
7. Shared Context
8. Test Doubles
9. Running Specs
10. factory_bot
11. Testing Tool Belt
12. Writing Specs for your Rails App
13. Conclusion

Background Processing

1. Active Job
2. Queueing Backends
3. Conclusion

Active Storage

1. Setup
2. Expense Report
3. Representations and Variants
4. Removing Files
5. Production
6. Conclusion

Action Mailer and Action Mailbox

1. Mailer Models
2. Previews
3. Testing Email Content
4. Configuration
5. Receiving Emails
6. Conclusion

Asset Pipeline

1. Propshaft
2. importmap-rails
3. dartsass-rails
4. tailwindcss-rails
5. A workflow without Node, npm or yarn
6. CSS & JS Bundling
7. The Rails Core Team Options
8. faucet-pipeline
9. Assets in Production
10. Conclusion

Component-Based Views

1. Installation and Configuration
2. Bootstrap
3. Styling the Flash
4. Component Helper
5. Closing the Alert
6. Slots
7. Rendering Collections
8. Previews
9. Working with Components
10. Adding Items to our Invoice
11. Conclusion

JavaScript

1. Turbo Drive
2. Turbo Frames
3. Turbo Streams
4. Broadcasting TurboStreams
5. Custom Elements
6. Alternatives
7. Conclusion