Practical Rails Social Networking Sites

Practical Rails Social Networking Sites shows you the complete development cycle of a social networking community web site. The project develops first as a simple content management system, after which author Alan Bradburne progressively adds features in order to build a full Web 2.0-enabled communi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bradburne, Alan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and the RailsCoders Project
  • Developing a Content Management System
  • Adding Users and Groups
  • Building a News Blog with RSS Feeds and an API
  • Building a Discussion Forum
  • Building a Blogging Engine with Web Services Support
  • Building a Photo Gallery
  • Sending E-mail and Building a Newsletter Mailing List
  • Adding Friends with XFN Details
  • Adding Tags to the Photo Gallery
  • Creating Mashups and Integrating with Web 2.0
  • Adding User-Created Themes to the Blogging Engine
  • Adding a Mobile Interface
  • Deploying, Optimizing, and Scaling the Application.