Crafting Rails Plugins

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" summary

A live walkthrough shows how to package features as a gem that hooks into Rails lifecycle, using Railtie and mountable engine patterns to add routes, migrations, models, controllers, views and configuration. Code examples demonstrate mounting an engine in a sample app, writing an initializer hook to inject middleware, and shipping a migration with the gem; the demo gem runs in the app without manual edits, proving the approach works end to end.

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" chapters (5)

1. 0:00Introduction to Rails plugins
2. 10:59Why create Rails plugins
3. 22:28Building plugin structure
4. 33:09Testing plugins effectively
5. 40:55Deploying and maintaining plugins

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