Ruby on Rails Enterprise Application Development: Plan, Program, Extend
Date: 24 July 2010 | Posted by: BlackRobe
Building a complete Ruby on Rails business application from start to finish
Create a non-trivial, business-focused Rails application
Solve the real-world problems of developing and deploying Rails applications in a business environment
Apply the principles behind Rails development to practical real-world situations
In Detail
All businesses have processes that can be automated via computer applications, thereby reducing costs and simplifying everyday operations. This book demonstrates that a modern web application framework makes an ideal platform for such applications. It shows how the attributes that make the Rails framework so successful for Internet applications also provide great benefit within a business intranet. These attributes include easy roll-out and update of applications, centralized processing and data handling, simple maintenance, straightforward code development, and scalability.
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework ideally suited to building business applications, accelerating and simplifying the creation of database-driven websites. Often shortened to Rails or RoR, it provides a stack of tools to rapidly build web applications based on the Model-View-Controller design pattern.
This book covers topics such as installing Ruby, Rubygems, and Rails on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X; choosing and installing a database; installing an IDE for Rails development; setting up a Subversion repository to manage your code; creating a new Rails application; understanding Rails models; understanding controllers and views; improving user interfaces with Ajax; using Rails plugins to manage file uploads; using Capistrano to manage application deployment; techniques for scaling Rails applications, such as caching and using Apache to proxy through to the Mongrel server. The example application is straightforward to develop, easy to roll out, and simple to maintain.
What you will learn from this book?
Creating a new Rails application
Installing an IDE for Rails
Connecting Rails to a database
Utilizing Rails’ Model-View-Controller components
Setting up Mongrel with Apache
Adding Ajax to your Rails application
Backing up Rails applications
Adding an authentication system to your application
Optimizing Rails applications using caching
Scaling up your Rails production infrastructure using Apache, Mongrel, and load balancing
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