Celebrate Rails World with The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Whether you are attending the event in Toronto, or there in spirit, celebrate Rails World with The Pragmatic Bookshelf. During the event and through October 4, save 40 percent on Rails and Ruby ebooks using promo code RailsWorld2024 at checkout.
We are kicking off the sale by featuring the best-selling book by Andrew Atkinson, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails. We’ll be highlighting a different book each day during the event, but the promo code is good on all Ruby and Rails titles purchased through prapprog.com.
About High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails by Andrew Atkinson
Deepen your firsthand knowledge of high-scale PostgreSQL databases and Ruby on Rails applications with dozens of practical and hands-on exercises. Unlock the mysteries surrounding complex Active Record. Make any schema or data migration change confidently, without downtime. Grow your experience with modern and exclusive PostgreSQL features like SQL Merge, Returning, and Exclusion constraints. Put advanced capabilities like Full Text Search and Publish Subscribe mechanisms built into PostgreSQL to work in your Rails apps. Improve the quality of the data in your database, using the advanced and extensible system of types and constraints to reduce and eliminate application bugs. Tackle complex topics like how to improve query performance using specialized indexes. Discover how to effectively use built-in database functions and write your own, administer replication, and make the most of partitioning and foreign data wrappers. Use more than 40 well-supported open source tools to extend and enhance PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails. Gain invaluable insights into database administration by conducting advanced optimizations — including high-impact database maintenance — all while solving real-world operational challenges.
