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Practical Rails Plugins
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The Rails framework empowers developers with unprecedented levels of productivity
by embracing principles such as “convention over configuration” and
“don’t repeat yourself.” This paradigm is even apparent at the
community level, where developers regularly share their custom framework extensions
by way of Rails’ plugins feature. Plugins offer a way for developers to
easily extend the core Rails framework with their own custom features, allowing
for rapid integration of features such as user authentication, payment processing,
and multilingual application support.
Practical Rails Plugins shows you how to capitalize upon the vast array of
plugins at your disposal by guiding you through their integration into a variety
of interesting projects. You’ll learn how to rapidly augment projects involving
social recipe swapping, music band management and promotion, image sharing,
and an antique searching service by way of dozens of different plugins, and
will even learn how to create and distribute your own plugins along the way!
• The ultimate guide to building powerful web sites faster using Rails plugins
• Introduces popular plugins in the context of four real–world projects,
showing you how to take advantage of plugins to build an image discussion board,
recipe swapping social network, MP3 download service and band showcase, and
antique search application
• Shows you how to create and distribute your own plugins
What you’ll learn
• Install and manage your plugin collection.
• Effectively manage the development process using plugins for browser testing,
model augmentation, and data validation.
• Use plugins to expand your application’s abilities through user authentication,
graphical data representation, and payment processing.
• Create and distribute your own plugins for use by other community members!
Who is this book for?
Rails developers interested in taking advantage of plugins to streamline application
development.
About the Authors
Nick Plante is a programmer, author, entrepreneur and (most of all)
a nice guy. As a partner in Ubikorp Internet Services, Nick specializes in helping
web startups accelerate their development with Ruby and Rails. He’s also
a co–organizer of the NH Ruby User Group and the Rails Rumble coding competition,
and contributes to numerous open source projects.
Prior to his involvement in the Ruby community, Nick spent time in the trenches
with Java, PHP, Flash/ActionScript, and C/C++. In his free time he enjoys independent
film, comic books, loud music, and talking about himself in the third person.
If you feel like discussing any of these topics, he’d be happy to hear
from you. Nick’s contact information can be found on his blog at http://blog.zerosum.org.
David Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He’s
used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he
became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb's Journal.
Prior to this he worked professionally with PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic.
His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine
for CoolRuby.com (http://coolruby.com), a site that tracks the latest Ruby developments,
and working with ThoughtBot (http://www.thoughtbot.com.) on the Rails engine
that powers Sermo America's Top Doctor contest. Additionally, he has worked
on several other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow's
BirdFluBreakingNews search engine, and he also created the Slueshi text adventure
game system, a multiplayer text game engine written in Ruby.
David's journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such
as Linux Magazine, Dr Dobb's Journal, and PHP International Magazine. He's also
taught college courses and spoken publicly on topics such as "MySQL and
You" and "Making Money with Open Source Software."
He lives in New Hampshire and his hobbies include basketball, yo-yos, and sleep.
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