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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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Product type Paperback
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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Technologies and platforms used


We use a number of technologies in this chapter, mainly revolving around the Ruby programming language and its various libraries. Most of them have been described in Chapter 1. In addition to Ruby and its libraries we also use mashups, which are described next.

Mashups

As with previous chapters, while the main features in the applications are all implemented within the chapters itself, sometimes we still depend on other services provided by other providers. In this chapter we use four such external services—RPX for user web authentication, Gravatar for avatar services, Amazon Web Services S3 for photo storage, and Facebook Connect for reaching out to users on Facebook. RPX, Gravatar, and AWS S3 have been explained in previous chapters.

Facebook Connect

Facebook has a number of technologies and APIs used to interact and integrate with their platform, and Facebook Connect is one of them. Facebook Connect is a set of APIs that let users bring their identity and information...

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