bnb-on-rails-book

Our own “Getting Started with Rails” book.

Attribution

Many chapters of this book are updated versions of Kathleen Juell’s Rails on Containers book published by Digital Ocean. Thanks!

Introduction

• About Brand New Box
• Introduction

Environment

Consistent development environments are critical at Brand New Box. Here is how we do it!

• Virtual Machine
• Dip, Docker, and BNB Ruby

Rails Basics

This is the hello-world stuff. You can probably find this everywhere else on the internet, but this is the version we maintain.

• What is Rails?
• Creating a New Rails Project
• Scaffolding
• Console
• Basic Functionality

Progressive Enhancements

At Brand New Box, we find ourselves using a lot of the same technology concepts over and over. Here they are.

• Nested Resources
• Switching from ERB to HAML
• Stimulus.js
• Adding Bootstrap
• Trestle It
• Securing the Application
• Seed the Application
• Add Pagination

Additional Guides

• Connecting to databases