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By: Alan Bradburne

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Practical Ruby on 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&emdash; enabled community-based social
networking site using Ruby on Rails. You will learn how
to make the best use of the Ruby on Rails framework
within a large project and how to implement and adapt
features specific to a community. The book offers
practical advice and tips for developing and testing,
along with guidance on how to take your site live, as
well as optimize and maintain it. The book also explores
how to integrate with other community sites such as
Flickr and Google Maps, and how to make good use of Rails
Ajax features. You will also learn how to optimize and
adapt your site to work well on mobile browsers.

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About the Author	p. xvii
About the Technical Reviewer	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction	p. xxiii
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and the RailsCoders Project	p. 1
The RailsCoders Project	p. 1
Ruby and Ruby on Rails	p. 2
A Brief History of Ruby	p. 3
What Is Ruby on Rails?	p. 4
Software Required to Build RailsCoders	p. 7
Upgrading Rails	p. 8
Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL	p. 8
Installing on Windows	p. 9
Mac OS X	p. 11
Linux	p. 12
Creating the Skeleton of the Rails Application	p. 14
Watching the Rails Logfiles	p. 16
Setting up the Database	p. 17
Creating the Database	p. 18
Configuring Rails to Use the Database	p. 18
Testing the Database	p. 19
Summary	p. 20
Developing a Content Management System	p. 21
Specifying the Feature Requirements	p. 21
Rails, Routing, and REST	p. 21
Traditional Rails Routes	p. 22
RESTful Rails Routes	p. 22
Creating a Site Layout	p. 23
Designing the Pages and Page Editor	p. 26
The Page Model	p. 26
The Page Controller	p. 27
Creating the Page Model	p. 28
Migrations	p. 28
Creating the Model	p. 29
Creating the Controller	p. 33
Setting Up a Default Page	p. 41
Adding a Link from the Sidebar Menu	p. 41
Testing	p. 42
Creating the Testing Database	p. 42
Developing Unit Tests for the Page Model	p. 42
Extending the Content Management System	p. 44
Summary	p. 45
Adding Users and Groups	p. 47
Specifying the Feature Requirements	p. 47
Defining the User Model	p. 47
The Role Model and Join Table	p. 48
The Controllers	p. 49
Sessions and Cookies	p. 50
Creating the User Model	p. 51
The Session-Handling Library	p. 53
Creating the Controllers	p. 55
The Users Controller	p. 55
The Account Controller	p. 57
Creating the User Account Views	p. 58
The New User View	p. 58
The Login View	p. 61
The Show User View	p. 62
Adding Administration Views	p. 63
Listing All Users in the Index View	p. 64
Editing a User with edit.rhtml	p. 66
Testing	p. 67
Unit Testing	p. 67
Functional Testing	p. 68
Adding Roles	p. 72
Creating the Role Model and Join Table	p. 72
Checking a User's Roles	p. 74
Administering Roles	p. 76
Testing the Roles Functionality	p. 79
Extending the User Management System	p. 81
Summary	p. 81
Building a News Blog with RSS Feeds and an API	p. 83
Specifying the Feature Requirements	p. 83
Textile Markup	p. 83
The Article Model	p. 84
Defining the Category Model	p. 85
The Editor Role	p. 85
The Articles Controller	p. 86
The Categories Controller	p. 86
Installing the RedCloth Gem	p. 86
Creating the Article and Category Models	p. 87
Writing the Database Migrations	p. 87
Defining the Relationships Among Models	p. 88
Defining the Validations	p. 89
Automatically Nullifying category_id on Deletion	p. 89
Automatically Updating the published_at Field	p. 89
Adding the Editor Role	p. 90
Creating the Articles Controller and Views	p. 91
Mapping the REST Resources	p. 91
The Articles Controller	p. 92
The Article Views	p. 98
Using the Articles Feature	p. 101
Testing the XML API	p. 101
Adding HTTP Authentication for the API	p. 103
Testing the API Authentication	p. 104
Creating the Categories' Controller and Views	p. 105
The Categories Controller	p. 105
The Category Views	p. 108
Adding a Link from the Sidebar Menu	p. 109
Manually Testing the News Blog System	p. 110
Testing the News Blog	p. 110
Functional Tests	p. 112
Integration Tests	p. 114
Further Development of the News System	p. 115
Summary	p. 116
Building a Discussion Forum	p. 117
Specifying the Discussion Forum Requirements	p. 117
Defining the Forum Model	p. 118
Defining the Topic Model	p. 118
Defining the Post Model	p. 119
The Moderator Role	p. 119
The Forum, Topic, and Post Controllers	p. 119
Building the Forum	p. 120
Building the Forum, Topic, and Post Models	p. 120
Checking a User's Roles for Moderator Rights	p. 126
Adding the Nested Resource Route Mappings	p. 126
Modifying the Layout Template and Style Sheet	p. 126
The Forums Controllet and Views	p. 127
The Topics Controller and Views	p. 131
The Posts Controller and Views	p. 136
Adding a Link to the Sidebar Menu	p. 141
Testing the Topics and Posts	p. 141
Restricting Actions to Moderators	p. 142
Testing the Forum	p. 143
Creating Test Fixtures	p. 143
Creating the Functional Tests	p. 144
Further Development of the Discussion Forum	p. 150
Summary	p. 151
Building a Blogging Engine with Web Services Support	p. 153
Specifying the Blog Engine Requirements	p. 153
The Entry Model	p. 153
The Comment Model	p. 154
The User Model	p. 154
The Entries Controller	p. 155
The Comments Controller	p. 155
The Blogs Controller	p. 155
Blogging APIs	p. 155
Building the Blogging System	p. 156
Generating the Blogging Scaffolding Code	p. 156
Writing the Migrations	p. 158
The Models' Relationships and Validations	p. 160
Creating the Resource Mapping	p. 161
The Blog Name Helper Method	p. 161
Adding the Blog Title to the Edit User Profile Page	p. 162
The Controllers and Views	p. 163
Testing the Entries Controller	p. 171
Creating and Testing the Comments Controller	p. 173
Adding the Latest Blog Entries to User Profiles	p. 177
The Blogs Controller	p. 178
Creating an XML-RPC Blogging Interface	p. 180
Action Web Service	p. 181
Generating the Web Service Code	p. 181
Defining the API Method Calls	p. 182
Writing the Blogging API Method Code	p. 184
Testing the Web Services	p. 188
Testing Using a Desktop Blogging Client	p. 186
Automated Testing of the Blogging API	p. 188
Further Development of the Blogging System	p. 189
Summary	p. 189
Building a Photo Gallery	p. 191
Working with Uploaded Files	p. 191
The attachment_fu Plug-in	p. 192
The Photo Gallery Requirements	p. 194
Defining the Photo Model	p. 195
The Photos Controllers	p. 195
Installing ImageMagick, RMagick, and attachment_fu	p. 195
Installing on Windows	p. 196
Installing on OS X	p. 196
Installing on Linux	p. 196
Installing the attachment_fu Plug-in	p. 196
Building the Photo Gallery	p. 197
Generating the Scaffolding Code	p. 197
Writing the Migration	p. 198
Creating the Photo Model and Its Relationships	p. 199
Mapping the Photos Resource	p. 200
The Photos and User Photos Controllers	p. 200
The Photo Views	p. 203
Manually Testing the Gallery	p. 208
Writing the Test Cases	p. 210
Creating the Photo Fixtures	p. 210
Unit Testing	p. 210
Functional Tests	p. 212
Further Development of the Photo Gallery	p. 215
Summary	p. 215
Sending E-mail and Building a Newsletter Mailing List	p. 217
Using ActionMailer	p. 217
Configuring ActionMailer	p. 217
Specifying the E-mail Feature Requirements	p. 218
E-mail Notifications of New Comments	p. 219
E-mail Newsletters	p. 219
Building the New Comment Notifier	p. 220
Creating the Mailer	p. 220
Manually Testing E-mail Creation	p. 223
Calling the Mailer from the Comments Controller	p. 226
Testing the Mailer from Within the Application	p. 227
Automating the Mailer Tests	p. 228
Building the Newsletter Feature	p. 230
Installing ar_mailer	p. 230
Creating the Skeleton Resource	p. 232
Mapping the Newsletter Resource	p. 233
The Newsletter Model	p. 234
Writing the Newsletter Controller and Views	p. 234
Creating the Newsletter Mailer	p. 241
Add the Newsletters to the Sidebar	p. 241
Testing the Newsletter Mailer	p. 242
Further Development of the E-mail System	p. 244
Summary	p. 244
Adding Friends with XFN Details	p. 247
Microformats and XFN	p. 247
The Friends Feature Requirements	p. 249
The Friends Resource	p. 249
Showing Users' Latest Activities	p. 251
Building the Friends Resource	p. 251
Creating the Database Migrations	p. 251
Building the Friends Resource	p. 254
Updating the User's Latest Activity	p. 257
The Friends Controller and Views	p. 258
Adding Friends Links to the Sidebar Menu	p. 267
Styling the Friends List	p. 269
Testing	p. 272
Further Development of the Friendship Feature	p. 274
Summary	p. 275
Adding Tags to the Photo Gallery	p. 277
The Gallery Tagging Requirements	p. 277
Tagging with Rails	p. 278
The acts_as_taggable_on_steroids Plug-in	p. 279
Building the Photo Tagging Feature	p. 282
Installing the acts_as_taggable_on_steroids Plug-in	p. 282
Creating the Database Tables	p. 283
Updating the Models	p. 284
Creating the Controllers	p. 285
Adding the Resource Mappings	p. 285
Writing the Controllers and Views	p. 286
Adding Tags to a Photo	p. 290
Linking to the Tag Browser	p. 295
Manually Testing	p. 296
Further Development of the Tagging System	p. 298
Summary	p. 299
Creating Mashups and Integrating with Web 2.0	p. 301
Integrating the Google Maps API	p. 301
The Mapping Feature Requirements	p. 302
Building the Mapping Feature	p. 303
Integrating the Flickr API	p. 316
The Flickr Feature Requirements	p. 317
Building the Flickr Integration Feature	p. 317
Further Development Using Mashups	p. 326
Summary	p. 327
Adding User-Created Themes to the Blogging Engine	p. 329
The Blog Template Requirements	p. 329
Liquid Templates	p. 330
The Liquid API	p. 331
Liquid Markup	p. 331
Installing Liquid	p. 332
Building the Blog Templates Feature	p. 333
Creating the Liquid Drops	p. 333
Creating the Liquid Filters	p. 336
The Usertemplate Model	p. 337
The Usertemplates Controller	p. 338
The Usertemplate Views	p. 340
Rendering Liquid Templates	p. 342
Manual Testing	p. 343
Testing the Usertemplates Controller	p. 346
Further Development of the User Templates	p. 348
Summary	p. 349
Adding a Mobile Interface	p. 351
The Mobile Web	p. 351
The RailsCoders Mobile Site Requirements	p. 352
The Layout	p. 353
User Profiles	p. 354
Accounts	p. 354
Pages	p. 354
News Articles	p. 354
Forums	p. 354
Blogs	p. 354
Photo Gallery	p. 355
Developing Mobile RailsCoders	p. 355
Structure of the Mobile Application	p. 355
Creating the Mobile Layout and Style Sheet	p. 356
The Resource Mappings	p. 357
The Mobile Controllers and Views	p. 360
Manual Testing	p. 375
Testing the Mobile Site	p. 375
Further Development of the Mobile Site	p. 377
Summary	p. 377
Deploying, Optimizing, and Scaling the Application	p. 379
Deploying RailsCoders	p. 379
Development Mode vs. Production Mode	p. 379
Session Storage	p. 380
Choosing a Host	p. 381
Choosing a Web Server	p. 382
Automating Deployment with Capistrano and Deprec	p. 383
Optimizing and Scaling RailsCoders	p. 392
Watching the Log Files	p. 392
Caching	p. 393
Benchmarking	p. 395
Summary	p. 396
Index	p. 397
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