The Rails (TM) 5 Way is the comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for professionals delivering production-quality code using modern Ruby on Rails. Obie Fernandez illuminates the entire Rails 5 API, its most powerful idioms, design approaches, and libraries. He presents new and updated content on Action Cable, RSpec 3.4, Turbolinks 5.0, the Attributes API, and many other enhancements, both major and subtle.

Through detailed code examples, you'll dive deep into Ruby on Rails, discover why it's designed as it is, and learn to make it do exactly what you want. Proven in thousands of production systems, the knowledge in this book will maximise your productivity and help you build more successful solutions.

Build powerful, scalable, REST-compliant back-end services
Program complex program flows using Action Controller
Represent models, relationships, and operations in Active Record, and apply advanced Active Record techniques
Smoothly evolve database schema via Migrations
Craft front-ends with ActionView and the Asset Pipeline
Optimise performance and scalability with caching and Turbolinks 5.0
Improve your productivity using Haml HTML templating
Secure your systems against attacks like SQL Injection, XSS, and XSRF
Integrate email using Action Mailer
Enable real-time, websockets-based browser behavior with Action Cable
Improve responsiveness with background processing
Build "API-only" back-end projects that speak JSON
Leverage enhancements to Active Job, serialisation, and Ajax support