Enterprise Rails | Dan Chak
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published October 2008, 350 pages, ISBN 0596515200 | List Price: $44.99
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What does it take to develop an enterprise application with Rails? Enterprise
Rails introduces several time-tested software engineering principles to prepare
you for the challenge of building a high-performance, scalable website with
global reach. You'll learn how to design a solid architecture that ties the
many parts of an enterprise website together, including the database, your servers
and clients, and other services as well.
Many Rails developers think that planning for scale is unnecessary. But there's
nothing worse than an application that fails because it can't handle sudden
success. Throughout this book, you'll work on an example enterprise project
to learn first-hand what's involved in architecting serious web applications.
With this book, you will:
• Tour an ideal enterprise systems layout: how Rails fits in, and which elements
don't rely on Rails
• Learn to structure a Rails 2.0 application for complex websites
• Discover how plugins can support reusable code and improve application clarity
• Build a solid data model -- a fortress -- that protects your data from corruption
• Base an ActiveRecord model on a database view, and build support for multiple
table inheritance
• Explore service-oriented architecture and web services with XML-RPC and REST
• See how caching can be a dependable way to improve performance
Building for scale requires more work up front, but you'll have a flexible
website that can be extended easily when your needs change. Enterprise Rails
teaches you how to architect scalable Rails applications from the ground up.
About the Author
Dan’s varied education in real-world web architecture gives him a unique
perspective on the challenges of building rock-solid web applications. Dan has
worked at Amazon.com, the world’s biggest online retail store, where seemingly
small technology problems become big ones due to enormous scale. Dan also directed
software development at CourseAdvisor Inc., a Ruby on Rails startup company.
A nearly instant success, CourseAdvisor was acquired by the Washington Post
Company in October 2007.
Dan is now investigating the Internet’s next big challenges. You can hear
his thoughts on his blog at http://blog.chak.org. You can also join the discussion
of this book at http://enterpriserails.chak.org.
Dan received a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT,
and a Masters degree in Media Arts & Sciences from the MIT Media Laboratory.
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