Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition

What Is in the Book?

We’ll explore the inner workings of Rails across eight chapters.

In Chapter 1, ​Creating Our Own Renderer​, I’ll introduce rails plugin, a tool used throughout this book to create Rails plug-ins, and we’ll customize render to accept :pdf as an option with a behavior we’ll define. This chapter starts a series of discussions about Rails’s rendering stack.

In Chapter 2, ​Building Models with Active Model​, we’ll take a look at Active Model and its modules as we create an extension called Mail Form that receives data through a form and sends it to a preconfigured email address.

Then in Chapter 3, ​Retrieving View Templates from Custom Stores​, we’ll revisit the Rails rendering stack and customize it ...