Component-based Rails Applications

What is “Component-based Rails Applications” about?

Component-Based Rails is a proven method to manage the complexity of large applications. It ensures that we can maintain development speed, quality, and fun throughout the life cycle of applications. Components do this by enabling conversations about high-level structures that lead to improved communication of intent, more collaboration opportunities, and better maintenance capabilities.

As Rails applications grow, even experienced developers find it difficult to navigate code bases, implement new features, and keep tests fast. Components are the solution, and Component-Based Rails Applications shows how to make the most of them.

One step at a time, Hagemann demonstrates how to revamp Rails applications to exhibit visible, provably independent, and explicitly connected parts–thereby simplifying them and making them far easier for teams to manage, change, and test. Throughout, he introduces design concepts and techniques you can use to improve applications of many kinds, even if they weren’t built with Rails or Ruby

Who should read “Component-based Rails Applications”?

Writing for programmers and software team leads who are comfortable with Ruby and Rails, Stephan Hagemann introduces a practical, start-to-finish methodology for modernizing and restructuring existing Rails applications.

What will you learn in “Component-based Rails Applications”

Learn how components clarify intent, improve collaboration, and simplify innovation and maintenance
Create a full Rails application within a component, from first steps to migrations and dependency management
Test component-based applications, manage assets and dependencies, and deploy your application to production
Identify the seams in an existing Rails application, and refactor it to extract components
Master a scripted, repeatable approach for refactoring Rails applications of any size
Use component-based Rails with two popular structural patterns: hexagonal and DCI architecture
Leverage your new component skills with other frameworks and languages
Overcome the unique challenges that arise as you componentize Rails applications