Ruby in Practice

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. Brief Table of Contents
3. Table of Contents
4. List of Figures
5. List of Tables
6. List of Listings
7. Preface
8. Acknowledgments
9. About this Book
10. Part 1. Ruby techniques
    1. Chapter 1. Ruby under the microscope
       1. 1.1. Why Ruby now?
       2. 1.2. Ruby by example
       3. 1.3. Facets of Ruby
       4. 1.4. Metaprogramming
       5. 1.5. Summary
    2. Chapter 2. Testing Ruby
       1. 2.1. Testing principles
       2. 2.2. Test-driven development with Ruby
       3. 2.3. Behavior-driven development with RSpec
       4. 2.4. A testing environment
       5. 2.5. Testing your tests
       6. 2.6. Summary
    3. Chapter 3. Scripting with Ruby
       1. 3.1. Scripting with Ruby
       2. 3.2. Automating with OLE and OSA
       3. 3.3. Using Rake
       4. 3.4. Summary
11. Part 2. Integration and communication
    1. Chapter 4. Ruby on Rails techniques
       1. 4.1. Extending Rails
       2. 4.2. Rails performance
       3. 4.3. Summary
    2. Chapter 5. Web services
       1. 5.1. Using HTTP
       2. 5.2. REST with Rails
       3. 5.3. SOAP services
       4. 5.4. Summary
    3. Chapter 6. Automating communication
       1. 6.1. Automating email
       2. 6.2. Automating instant communication
       3. 6.3. Summary
    4. Chapter 7. Asynchronous messaging
       1. 7.1. Open source messaging servers
       2. 7.2. WebSphere MQ
       3. 7.3. Summary
    5. Chapter 8. Deployment
       1. 8.1. Creating deployable packages with RubyGems
       2. 8.2. Deploying web applications
       3. 8.3. Monitoring with God.rb
       4. 8.4. Summary
12. Part 3. Data and document techniques
    1. Chapter 9. Database facilities and techniques
       1. 9.1. Using plain-text files for data persistence
       2. 9.2. Using the (g)dbm API
       3. 9.3. The MySQL driver
       4. 9.4. Using DBI
       5. 9.5. Summary
    2. Chapter 10. Structured documents
       1. 10.1. XML in practice
       2. 10.2. Parsing HTML and XHTML with Hpricot
       3. 10.3. Writing configuration data: revisited
       4. 10.4. Reading RSS feeds
       5. 10.5. Creating your own feed
       6. 10.6. Using YAML for data storage
       7. 10.7. Summary
    3. Chapter 11. Identity and authentication
       1. 11.1. Securely storing a password
       2. 11.2. Authenticating against Active Directory
       3. 11.3. Adding authentication to your Rails application
       4. 11.4. Semi-private, personalized feeds
       5. 11.5. HTTP Basic Authentication
       6. 11.6. Integrating OpenID into your application
       7. 11.7. Summary
    4. Chapter 12. Searching and indexing
       1. 12.1. The principles of searching
       2. 12.2. Standalone and high-performance searching
       3. 12.3. Integrating search with other technologies
       4. 12.4. Summary
    5. Chapter 13. Document processing and reporting
       1. 13.1. Processing CSV data
       2. 13.2. Generating and emailing daily reports
       3. 13.3. Comparing text reports to well-formed data
       4. 13.4. Creating customized documents for printing
       5. 13.5. Reporting against large datasets
       6. 13.6. Summary
13. Appendix A. Installing Ruby
    1. A.1. Installing on Windows
    2. A.2. Installing on Mac OS X
    3. A.3. Installing on Linux
    4. A.4. More tips
14. Appendix B. JRuby
    1. B.1. Installing and using JRuby
    2. B.2. JRuby and Ruby side by side
    3. B.3. Mixing Ruby and Java
    4. B.4. Scripting with Ruby
    5. B.5. Deploying web applications
15. Appendix C. Deploying web apps
    1. C.1. An overview of deployment options
    2. C.2. Reverse proxying
    3. C.3. Setting up Thin
    4. C.4. Setting up Apache load balancing
    5. C.5. Summary
16. Index
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