Enterprise Rails / Dan Chak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chak, Dan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruby on rails (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Ruby (Computer program language).

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing : O'Reilly, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

What does it take to develop an enterprise application with Rails? Enterprise Rails introduces several time-tested software engineering principles to prepare you for the challenge of building a high-performance, scalable website with global reach. You'll learn how to design a solid architecture that ties the many parts of an enterprise website together, including the database, your servers and clients, and other services as well. Many Rails developers think that planning for scale is unnecessary. But there's nothing worse than an application that fails because it can't han

Contents:

Enterprise Rails; Speed Versus Scalability; What to Expect in This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Who Is This Book For?; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; 1. The Big Picture; Growing Slowly; Understanding All the Pieces; Application Layer; Web-services layer; Caching Layer; Messaging System; Web Server; Firewall; 2. Organizing with Plugins; Writing Your Own Plugins; Core plugin template; Testing; Using a core plugin; Custom Extensions; Extension plugin template; Using a custom extension; Testing; Deployment

3. Organizing with ModulesModule Boundaries for Namespacing; Reciprocal Relationships; Modules Presage Services; Ensuring Proper Load Order; Exercises; Refactor Steps; Detangling Utility Methods; 4. Database As a Fortress; "No One in My Company Will Ever Write a Bug"; "This Rails Application Is the Only Application on Earth"; Sit Atop the Shoulders of Giants; A Note on Migrations; Dispelling Myths; Operations and Reporting; 5. Building a Solid Data Model; Constraints; Mythbusting; Referential Integrity; Intro to Indexing; 6. Refactoring to Third Normal Form

Refactoring: Inheritance and MixinsExercises; Refactor Steps; 7. Domain Data; Strategy Pattern with Domain Tables; Refactor from Day One; 8. Composite Keys and Domain Key/Normal Form; Atop the Shoulders of...; Using Composite Keys in Rails; Using a DK/NF-Rails hybrid; Making assignment easier with method overrides; Deferrable Foreign Key Constraints; Understanding the Trade-offs; Ease of writing code; Exercises; Refactor Steps; Multiple Column Refactor; 9. Guaranteeing Complex Relationships with Triggers; Local variables and assignment; Blocks; Trigger-specific features

Triggers: fail safe versus fail fastConditionals; 10. Multiple Table Inheritance; What Is Polymorphism?; Inheritance and Persistence; Multiple Table Inheritance; XOR on Columns; Elegant MTI in Rails; Factory Classes; Exercises; Refactor Steps; Refactoring: polymorphic => true; 11. View-Backed Models; Basing a Model on a View; Considerations; References and Constraints; Indexing; Exercises; Refactor Steps; 12. Materialized Views; A View to Materialize; The Target Table; Refresh and Invalidation Functions; Who Pays the Price?; 1:N updates; N:1 updates; Triggered Refreshes and Invalidations

TheatresOrders; Purchased tickets; Hiding the Implementation with the Reconciler View; Cache Indexes; Results; Cascading Caches; Exercises; 13. SOA Primer; Why SOA?; A shared database; A service-oriented architecture; Reduce Database Load; The myth of database replication; Scalability II: Caching Is Tricky; Reduce Local Complexity; In Summary; Exercises; 14. SOA Considerations; API Is Accessible; API Design Best Practices; Limit Round Trips; Look for Opportunities for Parallelization; Send as Little as Possible; REST Versus XML-RPC Versus SOAP; SOAP; 15. An XML-RPC Service

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 4, 2013).

ISBN:

9780596803292

059680329X

9780596554088

0596554087

OCLC:

609841081