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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

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