Project 1, A Social Recipe-sharing Website, explains how to create a website where many users can sign up, log in, create food recipes, and categorize them into different types.

Project 2, Conference and Event RSVP Management, explains how to create an application where users can create events, organize meetups for different topics and themes, and other users can join them in these events.

Project 3, Creating an Online Social Pinboard, covers how to create an online pinboard, where a user can pin whatever he/she likes on to it and organize these objects. These pins can be repinned by other users on to their pinboards and thus create an online collection of the things or objects that people like.

Project 4, Creating a Restaurant Menu Builder, covers how to build a fully responsive system to create and manage menus for a restaurant. This project will port restaurant menus to tablets and smartphones and also demonstrate how to make an SaaS application in Rails.

Project 5, Building a Customizable Content Management System, explains how to create a customizable content management system to power simple content-driven websites. We will effectively create a system where designers will have the freedom to choose the frontend they want and end users can easily manage the content for that frontend.

Project 6, Creating an Analytics Dashboard using Rails and Mongoid, will cover tracking clicks, page views, and the location of the visitors who read the content generated from the website. We will analyze the data and generate different types of graphs that represent different types of data.

Project 7, Creating an API Mashup – Twitter and Google Maps, will dive into an API mashup of Twitter and Google Maps that will generate an application to map the locations of your friends who are tweeting. We will also filter these people based on country names.

Project 8, API Only Application – Backend for a Mobile App, explains an application where the entire backend is in the form of an API. The entire data will be available on the frontend in the form of JSON through API endpoints. The frontend can be a web or mobile application.

Project 9, Video Streaming Website using Rails and HTML5, explains how to create an application to upload and encode videos. This application will allow visitors to stream and watch videos using an HTML5-based player.

Project 10, A Rails Engines-based E-Commerce Platform, explains how to create a Rails engine for generating an e-commerce application. This is mountable inside a blank Rails application.

In order to work with the projects in this book, you will need the following installed on your system:

All projects have been upgraded and tested with Ruby 2.0 and Rails 4.1.0 beta.

This book is aimed at developers who are already familiar with the basics of the Rails framework and have worked with Rails 3.2 or earlier versions. As the book follows a practical approach and uses terminology specific to Rails and web programming, it is assumed you have some prior experience with the development of applications. This book will help you upgrade your knowledge and improve its applicability.

In this book, you will find several headings that appear frequently. To give clear instructions of how to complete a procedure or task, we use:

This section explains the task that you will perform.

app/models/event.rb
class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :organizers, class_name: "User"
end

class AddPlanIdToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :users, :plan_id, :integer
  end
end

:~/pinpost$ rails g jquery:install

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