Ruby on Rails web mashup projects : a step-by-step tutorial to building web mashups / Chang Sau Sheong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Sau Sheong.

Series:

From technologies to solutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruby (Computer program language).

Internet programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing Limited, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A step-by-step tutorial to building web mashups

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to Web Mashups; Web mashups; Ruby and Ruby on Rails; Types of web mashups; What can I do with web mashups?; As a new breed of applications; Access large sets of external sources; Innovate and create extra value for your application; Save on development and maintenance; Leverage on and integrate common and widely available external applications; Things to watch out for when doing web mashups; Unreliable external APIs; Commercial dependency; Losing your users; How this book works; What does it do?; Domain background

Requirements overview Design; Mashup APIs on the menu; What we will be doing; Summary; Ready?; Chapter 2: 'Find closest' mashup plugin; What does it do?; Building a kiosk locator feature for your site; Requirements overview; Design; Mashup APIs on the menu; Google Maps; Yahoo Maps; Geocoder.us; Geocoder.ca; Hostip.info; GeoKit; Configuring GeoKit; Getting an application ID from Yahoo; Getting a Google Maps API key from Google; Configuring environment.rb; YM4R/GM; What we will be doing; Creating a new Rails project; Installing the Rails plugins that will use the various mashup APIs

Configuring database access and creating the database Creating scaffolding for the project; Populating kiosk locations with longitude and latitude information; Populate the database with sample data; Bulk adding of longitude and latitude; Adding longitude and latitude during kiosk creation entry; Creating the find closest feature; Displaying kiosks on Google Maps; Summary; Chapter 3: Proxy mailing list mashup plugin; What does it do?; Building a proxy mailing list feature for your website; Requirements overview; Design; Define messages; Get contacts and customized message data; Send messages

Sending SMS messages Sending fax messages; Mashup APIs on the menu; Google Spreadsheets; EditGrid; Clickatell; Interfax; Net::HTTP; What we will be doing; Creating a new Rails project; Configuring the database access and creating the database; Creating standard scaffolding; Allowing the marketing people to create the message templates; Allowing the reseller to provide contacts data through a remote link; Uploading to and publishing from Google Spreadsheets; Uploading to and publishing from EditGrid; Creating the rake script to send messages at regular intervals

Parsing data from the online spread sheet Sending a fax with Interfax; Sending an SMS through Clickatell; Sending an email through ActionMailer; Customizing text messages according to the individual recipient; Using the mashup; Summary; Chapter 4: Book sales tracking mashup plugin; What does it do?; A book sales tracking and shopping cart feature; Requirements overview; Design; Provide information; Track sales ranking with a chart; Show customer reviews; Provide a shopping cart; Allow visitors to buy related books; Mashup APIs on the menu; Amazon E-Commerce Services API

Registering for an Amazon Web Service access key ID

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611347970

9781281347978

1281347973

9781847193940

1847193943

OCLC:

804665463