What's New in Rails 5?

Envato Tuts+ Courses

Course Description

Ruby on Rails has changed the world of web development since version 1 was released in 2004. It has become known since that time as a powerful framework that allows web applications to be built with relative ease. It’s a framework designed with developer productivity and happiness in mind. It’s also a framework that continues to change and evolve!

In this course, Envato Tuts+ instructor José Mota will give you a preview of some of the new features of the upcoming Rails release: version 5. You’ll get a look at some of the biggest changes and deprecations, as well as a preview of the latest versions of built-in libraries like Turbolinks, ActionCable and Sprockets. You’ll also see the newly integrated Rails API functionality. Best of all, you’ll learn how to get started using Rails 5 beta today!

What You’ll Learn

• The main deprecations for Rails 5.
• Features that already existed in Rails 4, but have been tweaked to work better.
• How to use new ActiveRecord features to solve common problems.
• How to use the Rails API, which is baked into the standard distribution in Rails 5.
• What’s new in Turbolinks 3, ActionCable, and more.

About the Instructor

José Mota is a Rubyist, Javascripter, UI designer, occasional speaker, and Mac & Arch Linux user. You can find out more on his website.