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Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby

By : Chang Sau Sheong
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Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby

By: Chang Sau Sheong

Overview of this book

Most users on the Internet have a few favorite Internet web applications that they use often and cannot do without. These popular applications often provide essential services that we need even while we don’t fully understand its features or how they work. Ruby empowers you to develop your own clones of such applications without much ordeal. Learning how these sites work and describing how they can be implemented enables you to move to the next step of customizing them and enabling your own version of these services.This book shows the reader how to clone some of the Internet's most popular applications in Ruby by first identifying their main features, and then showing example Ruby code to replicate this functionality.While we understand that it connects us to our friends and people we want to meet up with, what is the common feature of a social network that makes it a social network? And how do these features work? This book is the answer to all these questions. It will provide a step-by-step explanation on how the application is designed and coded, and then how it is deployed to the Heroku cloud platform. This book’s main purpose is to break up popular Internet services such as TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook to understand what makes it tick. Then using Ruby, the book describes how a minimal set of features for these sites can be modeled, built, and deployed on the Internet.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary


This is the final chapter in the book and we have covered a lot of ground here. We talked about social networking services in the previous chapter and discussed the features and design of Colony, our Facebook clone. We also went through the data model of the clone. In this chapter we continued to describe the implementation of Colony.

We described the application flow of Colony in detail, feature-by-feature. We started by describing the overall structure of the application flow, followed by the user authentication and login mechanism. After that we described the landing page and the friends list feature as well as the user's activity feeds. We went on describing walls and wall posts followed by user photos and messages. Next were the events, groups, and pages features. We wrapped up the description of the Colony application flow with the comments and liking feature.

Finally we completed the chapter with our usual description of deploying the clone on both a cloud platform (Heroku)...