Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails
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Author: Maik Schmidt
Released: November
2008
Pages: 416
ISBN: 978-1-93435-623-4
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Enterprise Recipes
with Ruby and Rails helps you to
overcome typical obstacles hidden in every enterpriseÕs infrastructure. It
doesnÕt matter if your Rails application needs to access your companyÕs
message-oriented middleware or if it has to scan through tons of huge XML
documents to get a missing piece of data. Ruby and Rails enable you to create
solutions that are both elegant and efficient.
With more than 50
concise, targeted recipes, this book shows you how to use existing
infrastructure to develop effectively for the enterprise. For example, Ruby is
an excellent language for manipulating both textual and binary data. This is
enormously useful, because typical enterprise software is about storing and
processing huge amounts of data. YouÕll learn how to process data in various popular
data formats such as XML, CSV, fixed length records, and JSON.
This book covers the
whole spectrum of distributed application technologies, ranging from simple
socket-based servers to full-blown Service Oriented Architectures. In addition,
Ruby is a perfect ally when you have to integrate with RESTful and SOAP
services, or when you have to access message-oriented middleware. It even helps
you to reuse your existing C/C++, Java, or .NET code with ease.
Since the advent of the
Web, many enterprises have opened their internal services to the outside world
to participate in the rapidly growing world of e-commerce. As an enterprise
programmer youÕd better learn how to use existing payment gateways and how to
implement security mechanisms to protect your companyÕs data and your
customersÕ privacy, and this book shows you how.
Enterprise
programming is not only about developing huge software projects but also about
maintaining and operating them. YouÕll save a lot of valuable time if you
document your software (of course, automatically) and automate tedious and
recurring tasks, such as monitoring your servers and testing your programs. Enterprise
Recipes with Ruby and Rails covers these
major enterprise concerns, giving you tools and knowledge youÕll turn to over
and over.
This book is designed for
prototyping web apps.