The second edition of Rails, Angular, Postgres, Bootstrap is in beta.

There’s a lot of new content, mostly around Angular 2.

Of particular interest is that we aren’t using the Asset Pipeline, but are using Webpack. I tried hard to get Angular 2 working with Sprockets, but as Giles Bowkett points out in a recent post, Sprockets is not a modern tool for modern JavaScript.

The current beta is about 75% complete and includes:

• Rails
  • End-to-end unit testing with PhantomJS
  • Making your end-to-end tests work with Webpack
• Angular 2
  • Setting up Webpack to serve CSS and JS
  • Intro to Angular 2, including routing and unit testing.
• Postgres
  • Using and testing Postgres check constraints
  • Content-specific indexed (e.g. index on a lower-cased version of a field)
  • Materialized Views
• Bootstrap
  • Simple styling with Bootstrap
  • Grid-based design with Bootstrap

Angular 2’s setup was painful, but it’s a much nicer framework than Angular 1, and requires a lot less plumbing and decision-making than React (based on my limited experience with React).

The skills you learn in this book will let you solve a wide variety of problems quickly, cleanly, and efficiently, using modern and powerful tools.

Buy the beta now!

Note: if you bought the first edition, stay tuned—I’m not sure what accomodations will be made