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Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects. A step-by-step tutorial to building web mashups

Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects. A step-by-step tutorial to building web mashups

Chang Sau Sheong, David Heinemeier Hansson

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  • Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects
    • Table of Contents
    • Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects
    • Credits
    • About the Author
    • Acknowledgements
    • About the Reviewer
    • Preface
      • What This Book Covers
      • Conventions
      • Reader Feedback
      • Customer Support
        • Downloading the Example Code for the Book
        • Errata
        • Questions
    • 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?
    • 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 evironment.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
    • 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 spreadsheet
        • 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
    • 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
          • Registering as an Amazon Associate
        • Amazon ECS Ruby library
        • Sparklines web service
      • What we will be doing
        • Creating a new Rails project
        • Installing the Amazon ECS Ruby library
        • Creating the books controller
        • Creating the Amazon Rails library
        • Creating the sidebar
        • Getting customer reviews
        • Getting the daily sales ranking
        • Displaying the sales ranking sparkline
        • Creating a shopping cart
        • Adding similar books to the shopping cart
      • Summary
    • 5. Job board mashup application
      • What does it do?
      • Job board
      • Requirements overview
      • Design
      • Mashup APIs on the menu
        • Facebook
          • Facebook Platform
          • RFacebook
        • Google Maps
        • Indeed
        • Technorati
        • Daylife
        • Net::HTTP
        • XmlSimple
      • What we will be doing
        • Acquire candidates through Facebook
        • Search for jobs through Indeed
        • Display jobs in Google Maps
        • Search and display job news from Daylife
        • Search and display job stories from Technorati
        • Acquiring candidates through Facebook
          • Creating a Rails application
          • Creating a Facebook application
          • Installing and configuring RFacebook
          • Extracting the Facebook user profile
          • Displaying the user profile and creating the search form
          • Deploying and configuring the Facebook application
        • Searching for jobs through Indeed
          • Creating the search action
          • Parsing and displaying the search results
        • Display jobs in Google Maps
          • Displaying the location of the jobs on the map
          • Creating a link on each job to show the news and blog articles
        • Searching and displaying news from Daylife
          • Searching for news on the company
        • Searching and displaying blog articles from Technorati
          • Searching for blog entries on the company
      • Summary
    • 6. Trip organizer mashup application
      • What does it do?
      • Requirements overview
      • Design
      • Mashup APIs on the menu
        • Google Maps
        • FUTEF
        • WebserviceX Currency Converter
        • Yahoo Maps Geocoding API
        • WeatherBug
        • Kayak
        • GeoNames
        • Flickr
        • Hostip.info
        • Open URI
      • What we will be doing
        • Creating a Rails application
        • Creating the basic Location object
        • Creating a search form
        • Creating the online map
        • Creating the tabs for the information
        • Getting information from Wikipedia
        • Getting places information
        • Getting hotel information
        • Getting weather information
        • Displaying pictures of the location
        • Showing currency exchange rate
        • Showing remote location time compared with local time
      • Showing nice exception pages
      • Summary
    • 7. Ticketing mashup application
      • What does it do?
      • Online event ticketing
      • Requirements overview
      • Design
      • Mashup APIs on the menu
        • PayPal
          • Website Payment Pro
          • PayPal Sandbox
        • Ruby-PayPal library
        • Google Calendar
        • GoogleCalendar library
        • Clickatell
      • What we will be doing
        • Creating a Rails application
        • Creating the flow for the ticketing application
        • Integrating with PayPal for payment
        • Integrating with Google Calendar
        • Integrating with Clickatell
      • Summary
    • 8. Expenses claims mashup plugin
      • What does it do?
      • Salary and expense claims
      • Requirements overview
      • Design
      • Mashup APIs on the menu
        • PayPal
          • Mass Payment
          • PayPal Sandbox
        • Google
          • Google Account Authentication
          • Google Data APIs
          • Google Document Data List APIs
          • Google Spreadsheet Data APIs
        • Ruby-PayPal library
        • Acts_as_state_machine plugin
        • XmlSimple
      • What we will be doing
        • Creating a Rails application
        • Setting up the database
        • Creating the Payment and Claim Item scaffolds
        • Modifying Payment and creatomg subclasses
        • Creating the Google API access library
        • Creating the Manager class and its controller and views
        • Creating the expense claims parsing rake script
        • Creating the mass payment rake script
        • Modifying the Payment and Claim Item controllers
      • How it works all together
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Titel: Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects. A step-by-step tutorial to building web mashups
  • Autor: Chang Sau Sheong, David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Originaler Titel: Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects. A step-by-step tutorial to building web mashups
  • ISBN: 9781847193940, 9781847193940
  • Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2008-04-24
  • Format: E-book
  • Artikelkennung: e_3cbe
  • Verleger: Packt Publishing