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From PHP to Ruby on Rails

You're reading from   From PHP to Ruby on Rails Transition from PHP to Ruby by leveraging your existing backend programming knowledge

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610091
Length 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:From PHP to Ruby Basics
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Ruby Mindset and Culture FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Our Local Environment 4. Chapter 3: Comparing Basic Ruby Syntax to PHP 5. Chapter 4: Ruby Scripting versus PHP Scripting 6. Chapter 5: Libraries and Class Syntax 7. Chapter 6: Debugging Ruby 8. Part 2:Ruby and the Web
9. Chapter 7: Understanding Convention over Configuration 10. Chapter 8: Models, DBs, and Active Record 11. Chapter 9: Bringing It All Together 12. Chapter 10: Considerations for Hosting Rails Applications versus PHP Applications 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Integrating libraries into your code in Ruby

One of the most useful skills you should acquire in your path to becoming a seasoned Ruby developer is integrating other gems into your code. As we’ve seen before, this is accomplished by using the Gemfile, but we’ll look at some additional options we can add to it and integrate them into our own scripts. Let’s write a script that takes the GitHub public API and lists all of the public repos for the user @PacktPublishing. There are several ways we could do this, but for this example, I’ve chosen a gem called Faraday. You can take a look at the source code here: https://github.com/lostisland/faraday.

Faraday is a client library that can help us make Representational State Transfer (REST) calls that are much easier to read than using the native Net::HTTP library that comes with Ruby. Let’s create a folder called integrating_gems and navigate to that folder:

mkdir integrating_gems
cd integrating_gems...
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