- By Nick Plante , David Berube
- ISBN13: 978-1-59059-993-8
- ISBN10: 1-59059-993-4
- 350 pp.
- Not Yet Published
- Price: $39.99
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Practical Rails Plugins
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.
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Nick Plante
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
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.