Component-Based Rails Applications Large Domains Under Control [Paperback]

Stephan Hagemannmost recently has been supporting clients of Pivotal Software in journeys of digital transformation. In these, organizational change is as much a topic as the implementation of Agile processes and software system architecture. This work grew out of Stephan’s previous management and engineering roles within Pivotal Labs, Pivotal’s software consulting group. Prior to joining Pivotal, Stephan moved to the United States from Germany where he worked as a software engineer for xing. He has a doctorate in information systems from the University of Münster in Germany.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Component-Based Rails Applications 1

1.1 Component-Based Rails 2

1.2 Benefits of Component-Based Applications 4

1.3 Component-Based Ruby 13

1.4 The Application Continuum 14

1.5 Related Works 15

Chapter 2: Creating a Component-Based Application 17

2.1 The Entire App Inside a Component 18

2.2 ActiveRecord and Handling Migrations within Components 27

2.3 Handling Dependencies within Components 34

Chapter 3: Tooling for Components 49

3.1 Testing a Component 50