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

Chang Sau Sheong

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Paperback Aug 2010 336 pages 1st Edition

Chang Sau Sheong

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Build your own custom social networking, URL shortening, and photo sharing websites using Ruby
Deploy and launch your custom high-end web applications
Learn what makes popular social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook tick
Understand features of some of the most famous photo sharing and social networking websites
A fast-paced tutorial to get you up and running with cloning some of the most impressive applications available on the Web.

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Most users on the Internet have a few favorite Internet web applications that they use often and cannot do without. These popular applications often provide essential services that we need even while we don’t fully understand its features or how they work. Ruby empowers you to develop your own clones of such applications without much ordeal. Learning how these sites work and describing how they can be implemented enables you to move to the next step of customizing them and enabling your own version of these services.This book shows the reader how to clone some of the Internet's most popular applications in Ruby by first identifying their main features, and then showing example Ruby code to replicate this functionality.While we understand that it connects us to our friends and people we want to meet up with, what is the common feature of a social network that makes it a social network? And how do these features work? This book is the answer to all these questions. It will provide a step-by-step explanation on how the application is designed and coded, and then how it is deployed to the Heroku cloud platform. This book’s main purpose is to break up popular Internet services such as TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook to understand what makes it tick. Then using Ruby, the book describes how a minimal set of features for these sites can be modeled, built, and deployed on the Internet.

Who is this book for?

This book is written for web application programmers with an intermediate knowledge of Ruby. You should also know how web applications work and you have used at least some of the cloned Internet services before. If you are a trying to find out exactly how can you make your very own customized applications such as TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, or Facebook, this book is for you. Programmers who want to include features of these Internet services into their own web applications will also find this book interesting.

What you will learn

Discover in depth the major features of TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook and what makes them work
Discover how each of these popular Internet services can be modeled with DataMapper
Create clones of these Internet services using Rack and Sinatra
Use third-party authentication providers with OpenID
Deploy the cloned Internet services to the cloud using Heroku
Use Amazon S3 to store data for your clones

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paco Oct 14, 2010

This book is an great resource for all level ruby developers because it contains comprehensive step by step tutorials and uses pretty advanced ruby techniques in the way but not being too hard to understand. The author takes you through the steps of creating a web app very similar to the WEB 2.0 apps that we have come to recognize and make part of our lives. The idea for the book is great because it makes developers understand web develipment in ruby based on applications they already know and love (probably).Going into finer detail the book has very comprehensive research for each of the cloned apps. This information could probably seem uninteresting to a developer but its not because it gives context and its very interesting. I think its absolutely awesome that the book uses not so mainstream gems or web frameworks like rails. There are a lot of non mainstream gems and libraries that are are as good and powerful! I would just recommend to keep in mind these gems change constantly and might seem outdated after a while if you get the paper copy!Also the book guides through the development process all the way to deployment on Heroku which I think its great! Advanced users will love this because all apps use Sinatra, DataMapper and other gems that are pretty neat and sometimes seing code fo those gems in use in the wild can be hard! Its a great read and a great reference for years to come![...]

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S. Neagu Sep 30, 2010

Just received my copy a few days ago and is a great book, showing that applications like twitter or TinyURL or even facebook are easy to create.Sau Sheong manage to inspire you (he inspired me) with the code piece, making you to think "what if...".I recommend the book to everyone interested in how, twitter and the rest of applications cloned in the book, are working.

Satish Manohar Talim Oct 14, 2010

This book is for those interested in and with some experience with web applications. The interesting thing is that the author describes four well-known applications and shows you not only how to implement each one, but describes different concerns about each type of application.The author will walk you through the code, but will not teach you in-depth programming theory, instead he will show you the parts that may be used to put together clones of these four famous services. He will also go over a quick history of each service type.For example, you will not even get to page sixty, and you will have a URL Shortening Clone built and deployed. He shows you the `parts' that you will use with Ruby to get it up and running. He walks you through the installation of Sinatra, Haml, and DataMapper. And then shows you how to use Blueprint CSS, Google Chart API, and HostIP. Alternatively, he goes over quickly how to deploy using Heroku.The next application you will look at is TwitterClone.You will use the following: JSON, GoogleClientLogin, Gravatar, and TinyURL, RPX (authentication provisioning service), TinyURL, and of course, Heroku for non-local deployment.Like the first clone, you will review why he chose Twitter (kind of obvious, right?), how it is popular and valued, and some of the issues faced. He will show you a data map of the features, and by page 120, you have done it again, went from Design to Implementation, to Deployment.The next exercise is cloning Flickr, and the author brings you the history, and overview, and then goes through the steps with you once again, to bring you to the last two chapters in the book, which clones Facebook! And it really isn't as complex as you may think.Have fun with this book, it will give you some insights, and may help to simplify a few tasks that you wanted to do, but were maybe intimidated by. It turns out, it isn't as complex as it may first appear!(Posted with permission from Victor Goff III - [...] )

C. Lung Oct 06, 2010

I just recently finished reading this book. The book uses Ruby and several well known tools/libraries/services such as HAML, Sinatra, DataMapper, Google Charting APIs, HostIP, Heroku (as a deployment option), etc. You should have some Ruby experience to go through this book. A beginner's tutorial (or refresher for more experienced developers) is included in chapter one that goes over HAML, DataMapper, and Sinatra. Examples are included and are quick and to the point.There is a lot of code packed into this book so you might find yourself reading chapters over a couple times to fully understand everything that is going on. Its not overly difficult, but as the data models get more complex so does the code. Fortunately all the source code is provided and running examples are currently on the Internet.In the book you create clones of TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook.

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