- name: Start Here documents: - name: Getting Started with Rails url: getting_started.html description: Everything you need to know to install Rails and create your first application. - name: Models documents: - name: Active Record Basics url: active_record_basics.html description: This guide will get you started with models, persistence to database and the Active Record pattern and library. - name: Active Record Migrations url: active_record_migrations.html description: This guide covers how you can use Active Record migrations to alter your database in a structured and organized manner. - name: Active Record Validations url: active_record_validations.html description: This guide covers how you can use Active Record validations - name: Active Record Callbacks url: active_record_callbacks.html description: This guide covers how you can use Active Record callbacks. - name: Active Record Associations url: association_basics.html description: This guide covers all the associations provided by Active Record. - name: Active Record Query Interface url: active_record_querying.html description: This guide covers the database query interface provided by Active Record. - name: Active Model basics url: active_model_basics.html description: This guide covers the use of model classes without Active Record. work_in_progress: true - name: Views documents: - name: Action View Overview url: action_view_overview.html description: This guide provides an introduction to Action View and introduces a few of the more common view helpers. work_in_progress: true - name: Layouts and Rendering in Rails url: layouts_and_rendering.html description: This guide covers the basic layout features of Action Controller and Action View, including rendering and redirecting, using content_for blocks, and working with partials. - name: Action View Form Helpers url: form_helpers.html description: Guide to using built-in Form helpers. - name: Controllers documents: - name: Action Controller Overview url: action_controller_overview.html description: This guide covers how controllers work and how they fit into the request cycle in your application. It includes sessions, filters, and cookies, data streaming, and dealing with exceptions raised by a request, among other topics. - name: Rails Routing from the Outside In url: routing.html description: This guide covers the user-facing features of Rails routing. If you want to understand how to use routing in your own Rails applications, start here. - name: Digging Deeper documents: - name: Active Support Core Extensions url: active_support_core_extensions.html description: This guide documents the Ruby core extensions defined in Active Support. - name: Rails Internationalization API url: i18n.html description: This guide covers how to add internationalization to your applications. Your application will be able to translate content to different languages, change pluralization rules, use correct date formats for each country and so on. - name: Action Mailer Basics url: action_mailer_basics.html description: This guide describes how to use Action Mailer to send and receive emails. - name: Active Job Basics url: active_job_basics.html description: This guide provides you with all you need to get started in creating, enqueueing and executing background jobs. - name: Testing Rails Applications url: testing.html work_in_progress: true description: This is a rather comprehensive guide to doing both unit and functional tests in Rails. It covers everything from 'What is a test?' to the testing APIs. Enjoy. - name: Securing Rails Applications url: security.html description: This guide describes common security problems in web applications and how to avoid them with Rails. - name: Debugging Rails Applications url: debugging_rails_applications.html description: This guide describes how to debug Rails applications. It covers the different ways of achieving this and how to understand what is happening "behind the scenes" of your code. - name: Configuring Rails Applications url: configuring.html description: This guide covers the basic configuration settings for a Rails application. - name: Rails Command Line Tools and Rake Tasks url: command_line.html description: This guide covers the command line tools and rake tasks provided by Rails. - name: Asset Pipeline url: asset_pipeline.html description: This guide documents the asset pipeline. - name: Working with JavaScript in Rails url: working_with_javascript_in_rails.html description: This guide covers the built-in Ajax/JavaScript functionality of Rails. - name: Getting Started with Engines url: engines.html description: This guide explains how to write a mountable engine. work_in_progress: true - name: The Rails Initialization Process work_in_progress: true url: initialization.html description: This guide explains the internals of the Rails initialization process as of Rails 4 - name: Autoloading and Reloading Constants url: autoloading_and_reloading_constants.html description: This guide documents how autoloading and reloading constants work. - name: Extending Rails documents: - name: The Basics of Creating Rails Plugins work_in_progress: true url: plugins.html description: This guide covers how to build a plugin to extend the functionality of Rails. - name: Rails on Rack url: rails_on_rack.html description: This guide covers Rails integration with Rack and interfacing with other Rack components. - name: Creating and Customizing Rails Generators url: generators.html description: This guide covers the process of adding a brand new generator to your extension or providing an alternative to an element of a built-in Rails generator (such as providing alternative test stubs for the scaffold generator). - name: Contributing to Ruby on Rails documents: - name: Contributing to Ruby on Rails url: contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.html description: Rails is not 'somebody else's framework.' This guide covers a variety of ways that you can get involved in the ongoing development of Rails. - name: API Documentation Guidelines url: api_documentation_guidelines.html description: This guide documents the Ruby on Rails API documentation guidelines. - name: Ruby on Rails Guides Guidelines url: ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.html description: This guide documents the Ruby on Rails guides guidelines. - name: Maintenance Policy documents: - name: Maintenance Policy url: maintenance_policy.html description: What versions of Ruby on Rails are currently supported, and when to expect new versions. - name: Release Notes documents: - name: Upgrading Ruby on Rails url: upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html description: This guide helps in upgrading applications to latest Ruby on Rails versions. - name: Ruby on Rails 4.2 Release Notes url: 4_2_release_notes.html description: Release notes for Rails 4.2. - name: Ruby on Rails 4.1 Release Notes url: 4_1_release_notes.html description: Release notes for Rails 4.1. - name: Ruby on Rails 4.0 Release Notes url: 4_0_release_notes.html description: Release notes for Rails 4.0. - name: Ruby on Rails 3.2 Release Notes url: 3_2_release_notes.html description: Release notes for Rails 3.2. - name: Ruby on Rails 3.1 Release Notes url: 3_1_release_notes.html description: Release notes for Rails 3.1. - name: Ruby on Rails 3.0 Release Notes url: 3_0_release_notes.html description: Release notes for Rails 3.0. - name: Ruby on Rails 2.3 Release Notes url: 2_3_release_notes.html description: Release notes for Rails 2.3. - name: Ruby on Rails 2.2 Release Notes url: 2_2_release_notes.html description: Release notes for Rails 2.2.