The Rails and Hotwire Codex
This book will teach you the skills to push Rails and Hotwire to the max
What is “The Rails and Hotwire Codex” about?
This book will teach you the skills to push Rails and Hotwire to the max.
Who should read “The Rails and Hotwire Codex”?
This book assumes basic familiarity with Ruby and Rails.
While junior to mid-level Rails developers will get the most value out of this book, I believe every single Rails developer will learn something significant.
What will you learn in “The Rails and Hotwire Codex”
This book will teach you the skills to push Rails and Hotwire to the max.
How to build an app for Web, iOS and Android We’ll build a neighborhood marketplace app à la Gumtree or Craigslist. We’ll call it Piazza. Alongside the Rails app, we’ll also build iOS and Android apps using Turbo Native.
Authentication and Authorization from scratch These are core concepts used in every single web app, and having a working understanding of what goes on under the hood is essential. That’s why, in this book, we build them from scratch instead of using a gem.
Shipping production quality code Far too many tutorials come with a caveat of “but don’t do this in production”. They rarely explain what one should do in production. None of that nonsense. Everything in this book is 100% production ready!
Internationalization and Localization Internationalizing an app from the get-go keeps all the user facing text out of the views. This keeps the code clean, makes it easier to test, and the app is ready to be localized when required.
Every single Rails sub-framework Action Mailer, Active Storage, Action Text, Active Job, Action Cable, Action Mailbox. We’ll build features using them all!
PostgreSQL powered search It’s hard to imagine a modern web app without search. PostgreSQL packs in quite a punch with its full-text search feature. We’ll build a search engine using it.
Deploying the app to Render Heroku is frozen in time. Render is the future. We’ll deploy services to run Rails, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL and Redis.
