Advanced Rails Building Industrial-Strength Web Apps in Record Time

Name: Advanced Rails Building Industrial-Strength Web Apps in Record Time
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ISBN: 9780596510329

ISBN-10: 0596510322

ISBN-13: 9780596510329

Edition: 2007

Authors: Brad Ediger

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Ready to go to the next level with Rails? From examining the parts of Ruby that make this framework possible to deploying large Rails applications, Advanced Rails offers you an in-depth look at techniques for dealing with databases, security, performance, web services and much more. Chapters in this book help you understand not only the tricks and techniques used within the Rails framework itself, but also how make use of ideas borrowed from other programming paradigms. Advanced Rails pays particular attention to building applications that scale -- whether "scale" means handling more users, or working with a bigger and more complex database. You'll find plenty of examples and code…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.19" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Brad Ediger is the CTO of Tasman Labs, a real-estate technology company. Together with his wife Kristen, a web designer, Brad owns Madriska Media Group, a firm specializing in custom application development. When not programming, Brad enjoys playing various musical instruments and watching obscure films.



Advanced Rails


Preface


Prerequisites


Conventions Used in This Book


Using Code Examples


How to Contact Us


Safari#xAE


Books Online


Acknowledgments



Foundational Techniques



What Is Metaprogramming?



Ruby Foundations



Metaprogramming Techniques



Functional Programming



Examples



Further Reading



ActiveSupport and RailTies



Ruby You May Have Missed



How to Read Code



ActiveSupport



Core Extensions



RailTies



Further Reading



Rails Plugins



About Plugins



Writing Plugins



Plugin Examples



Testing Plugins



Further Reading



Database



Database Management Systems



Large/Binary Objects



Advanced Database Features



Connecting to Multiple Databases



Caching



Load Balancing and High Availability



LDAP



Further Reading



Security



Application Issues



Web Issues



SQL Injection



Ruby's Environment



Further Reading



Performance



Measurement Tools



Rails Optimization Example



ActiveRecord Performance



Architectural Scalability



Other Systems



Further Reading



REST, Resources, and Web Services



What Is REST?



Benefits of a RESTful Architecture



RESTful Rails



Case Study: Amazon S3



Further Reading



i18n and L10n



Locale



Character Encodings



Unicode



Rails and Unicode



Rails L10n



Further Reading



Incorporating and Extending Rails



Replacing Rails Components



Incorporating Rails Components



Contributing to Rails



Further Reading



Large Projects



Version Control



Issue Tracking



Project Structure



Rails Deployment



Further Reading


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