Enterprise Rails (Paperback)

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.

開發一個使用Rails的企業應用程式需要什麼？《企業Rails》介紹了幾個經過時間考驗的軟體工程原則，以應對建立具有全球覆蓋範圍的高效能、可擴展網站的挑戰。您將學習如何設計一個堅固的架構，將企業網站的許多部分連接在一起，包括資料庫、伺服器和客戶端，以及其他服務。許多Rails開發人員認為規劃擴展性是不必要的。但沒有什麼比因無法應付突然的成功而導致應用程式失敗更糟糕的了。在本書中，您將通過一個實例企業專案來親自了解設計嚴肅網站應用程式所涉及的內容。本書將教您如何從頭開始設計可擴展的Rails應用程式，以應對規模的需求。