Component-Based Rails Applications: Large Domains Under Control

CHAPTER 2

Creating a Component-Based Application

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In preparation for creating your first CBRA app, you should ensure that your system is up to date with regard to Ruby and Rails. I suggest using the latest published versions of both Ruby and the Rails gems. The way I have my system set up, using the Ruby Version Manager (RVM) (http://rvm.io/), is something like the following:

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$ rvm get stable
$ rvm install 2.4.2
$ gem install bundler -v '1.15.4'
$ gem install rails -v '5.1.4'

Code Samples: The Sportsball App

Throughout this book, we are going ...