What You Need to Know

This book covers a lot of advanced topics in web development. However, my hope is that you can get a lot out of it regardless of your skill level. Nevertheless, the code and concepts are written assuming some basic exposure to the topics at hand:

Ruby and Rails

Much of the Rails content in the book is in configuration, specifically to get Rails to work with Angular, Bootstrap, and the ecosystem in which they live. If you’ve created a simple Rails app, and you know what controllers, models, views, migrations, and tests are, you should have no problem understanding the Rails code. If you’re new to Rails, check out Agile Web Development with Rails 4 [Rub13].

SQL

We’re also assuming you know some SQL. If you know the basics ...

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