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Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby

You're reading from   Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby Make clones of some of the best applications on the Web using the dynamic and object-oriented features of Ruby

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Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511063
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chang Sau Sheong Chang Sau Sheong
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Chang Sau Sheong has more than 12 years experience in software application development and has spent much of his career in web and Internet-based applications. He has a wide range of experience in banking payment-related as well as Internet-based e-commerce software. Currently he is the Director of Software Development of a 50+ strong software development team in Welcome Real-time, a multi-national payment/loyalty software company based in France and Singapore. Sau Sheong hails from tropical Malaysia but has spent most of his adult and working life in sunny Singapore, where he shares his spare time between enthusiastically writing software and equally enthusiastically playing Nintendo Wii with his wife and son.
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Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Cloning Internet Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. URL Shorteners – Cloning TinyURL 3. Microblogs – Cloning Twitter 4. Photo Sharing – Cloning Flickr 5. Social Networking Services – Cloning Facebook 1 6. Social Networking Services – Cloning Facebook 2 Index

Technologies and platforms used

We will use a number of technologies in this chapter, mainly revolving around the Ruby programming language and its various libraries. The main Ruby technologies have been discussed in detail in Chapter 1, Cloning Internet Applications, and this section is a refresher before we jump into the code discussion.

Sinatra

Sinatra is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for quickly creating web applications in Ruby. It keeps a minimal feature set for developers and is an excellent tool for creating small to mid-sized web applications using Ruby.

We discussed Sinatra in depth in Chapter 1.

Haml

Haml (HTML Abstraction Markup Language) is a simple markup language that is used to cleanly describe HTML in a web page. Haml was originally built for Ruby but has also been ported to other languages and platforms. We discussed Haml in depth in Chapter 1.

DataMapper

DataMapper is an object-relational mapping library for Ruby. While there are a number of Ruby object-relational mapping...

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Chang Sau Sheong has more than 12 years experience in software application development and has spent much of his career in web and Internet-based applications. He has a wide range of experience in banking payment-related as well as Internet-based e-commerce software. Currently he is the Director of Software Development of a 50+ strong software development team in Welcome Real-time, a multi-national payment/loyalty software company based in France and Singapore. Sau Sheong hails from tropical Malaysia but has spent most of his adult and working life in sunny Singapore, where he shares his spare time between enthusiastically writing software and equally enthusiastically playing Nintendo Wii with his wife and son.
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