Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Cloning Internet Applications
Chapter 2: URL Shorteners – Cloning TinyURL
Chapter 3: Microblogs – Cloning Twitter
Chapter 4: Photo Sharing – Cloning Flickr
Chapter 5: Social Networking Services – Cloning Facebook 1
Chapter 6: Social Networking Services – Cloning Facebook 2
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Cloning Internet Applications
  • Who would find this book useful
  • Popular Internet applications
  • Technologies used
    • Sinatra
      • Installing
      • Routes
      • Splitting a route into multiple files
      • Redirection
      • Filters
      • Static pages
      • Views
      • Layouts
      • Helpers
      • Error handling
    • DataMapper
      • Installing
      • Connecting to the database
      • Creating models
      • Defining associations between models
      • Creating the database tables
      • Finding records
    • Haml
      • Installing
      • Using Haml
      • Haml and Ruby
  • How this book works
  • Caveat
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: URL Shorteners – Cloning TinyURL
  • All about URL shorteners
  • Main features
  • Designing the clone
    • Creating a short URL for each long URL
    • Automatically redirecting from a short URL to a long URL
    • Providing a customized short URL
    • Filtering undesirable words out
      • Previewing the long URL
      • Providing statistics
  • Technologies and platforms used
    • Sinatra
    • Haml
    • DataMapper
    • Blueprint CSS
    • Mashups
      • Google Chart API
      • HostIP
    • Heroku
  • Building the clone
    • Data model
      • Url
      • Link
      • Visit
    • Application flow
  • Deploying the clone
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Microblogs – Cloning Twitter
  • All about microblogs
    • Twitter
      • Why Twitter?
  • Main features
  • Designing the clone
    • Posting statuses
    • Following users
    • Sending publicly directed messages
    • Sending privately directed messages
    • Re-tweeting
    • Public timeline
    • API
    • Authentication, access control, and user management
      • Third party authentication and access control
      • Authentication and user management
    • Scalability and stability
  • Technologies and platforms used
    • JSON
    • Mashups
      • RPX
      • Google ClientLogin
      • Gravatar
      • TinyURL
    • Heroku
  • Building the clone
    • Modeling the data
      • User
      • Status
    • Building the application flow
      • Authenticating and managing users
      • Displaying and updating statuses
      • Sending and displaying direct messages
      • Showing and forming relationships
    • Implementing the API
  • Deploying the clone
    • Deploying locally
    • Deploying to the cloud
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Photo Sharing – Cloning Flickr
  • All about photo-sharing services
    • Flickr
  • Main features
  • Designing the clone
    • Authentication, access control, and user management
    • Albums and photos
    • Uploading and storing photos
    • Comments
    • Annotations
    • Editing photos
    • Friendly URLs
    • Sharing photos
  • Technologies and platforms used
    • Mashups
      • RPX
      • Gravatar
    • Pixlr
    • Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3)
    • RightAWS
  • Building the clone
    • Configuration
    • Modeling the data
      • User
      • Album
      • Photo
      • Annotation
      • Comment
    • Building the application flow
      • Authenticating and managing users
      • Landing page
      • Managing albums
      • Uploading photos
      • Displaying photos
      • Annotating photos
      • Commenting on photos
      • Editing photos
      • Sharing photos
  • Deploying the clone
    • Deploying on a server
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Social Networking Services – Cloning Facebook 1
  • All about social networking services
    • Facebook
  • Main features
    • User
    • Community
    • Content sharing
  • Designing the clone
    • Authentication, access control, and user management
    • Status updates
    • User activity feeds and news feeds
    • Friends list and inviting users to join
    • Posting to the wall
    • Sending messages
    • Attending events
    • Forming groups
    • Commenting on and liking content
    • Sharing photos
    • Blogging with pages
  • Technologies and platforms used
    • Mashups
      • Facebook Connect
  • Building the clone
    • Configuring the clone
    • Modeling the data
      • User
      • Request
      • Message
      • Album
      • Photo
      • Status
      • Group
      • Event
      • Page
      • Wall
      • Activity
      • Comment
      • Like
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Social Networking Services – Cloning Facebook 2
  • Building the application flow
    • Structure of the application and flow
    • Authenticating and managing users
    • Landing page, news feed, and statuses
    • Inviting friends and friends list
      • Registering a Facebook application
      • Creating a cross-domain communication channel file
      • Writing the code
    • User page and activity feeds
    • Posting to a wall
    • Sharing photos
      • Managing albums
      • Uploading photos
      • Displaying photos
      • Annotating photos
      • Viewing friends' photos
    • Sending messages
    • Creating events
    • Forming groups
    • Sharing content through pages
    • Commenting and liking
  • Deploying the clone
    • Deploying locally
    • Deploying to the cloud
  • Summary

• Index