My notes from the book "Crafting Rails 4 Applications by José Valim"

ch1.md

Chapter 1 - Creating Our Own Renderer

Rails provides an API that we can use to create our own renderers. In this chapter we explore the API as we modify the render() method to accept :pdf as an option and return a PDF created with Prawn.

To create a new plugin just run the following:

$ rails plugin new my_plugin

TODO Complete notes

Links

• https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn
• http://gembundler.com/
• http://pryrepl.org/
  • Pry Screencast

preface.md

Preface

The book is for intermediate to advanced Rails developers looking to dig deeper and make the Rails framework work for them. For e.g. it will show you how the render() method works so you can modify it to accept custom options, such as :pdf.

The book works with Rails ~> 4.0.0.

To get the big picture ideas from the book, you should read the chapters in the order they are presented.

Changes in the Second Edition

• All projects and code examples updated and tested to work with Rails 4
• More up-to-date workflows for creating Rails plug-ins and interfacing with the framework
• A brand-new chapter that covers Rails' support for Server Sent Events, eager loading and thread safety
• Explores isolated and mountable engines and single-file Rails applications

Links

• José Valim on twitter and email
• http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/jvrails2
• http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jvrails2/
• http://pragprog.com/titles/jvrails2/errata/add
• http://plataformatec.com.br/
• http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown
• https://github.com/plataformatec/devise
• https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara