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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 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.
About the Author
Alan Bradburne is the co-founder of Incrediblinc Ltd (www.incrediblinc.com), a London-based Ruby on Rails development company specializing in developing community sites for both end-users and enterprise clients. Alan has over ten years experience in the web and mobile development industries, and has worked for Motorola, Nextel and Sun Microsystems. Prior to founding IncrediblInc he created http://phlog.net, the world's first dedicated mobile photo blogging community. He also developed the social networking site http://cudlz.com. He lives in Berkshire, England with his wife.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As the Technical Reviewer for this book, I have seen it grow from inception to publication. Along the way I have learnt exciting ways to apply possibly the coolest programming language available, alongside the most powerful web framework known to man, to the growing problem of "Just how do I write a social-networking site?".
This book will take you through just about every sub-system you will need to develop, creating along your surprisingly short journey the social-networking system of your dreams.
Buy two copies today - one to read, and one to keep for posterity.
This book will take you through just about every sub-system you will need to develop, creating along your surprisingly short journey the social-networking system of your dreams.
Buy two copies today - one to read, and one to keep for posterity.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was Alan's co-founder of IncrediblInc and have worked with him on a plethora of Rails projects. In my opinion, he's one of Europe's leading Rails developers today. We've built Rails-based social networking apps for a Fortune 500 company and we've built them for start-ups. He really knows what he's talking about.
If you're the CTO of a start-up thinking about developing in Rails, get this book - it will save you months. If you're the CEO, buy your CTO this book. If you're a freelance web developer, get this to make your customers happy. If you're the internal IT department guy, get this to develop a social networking site this weekend and become rich and famous!
Clearly, I'm biased but I am biased because it's *that* useful. Check out the US reviews as well.
Max Niederhofer, Atlas Venture
If you're the CTO of a start-up thinking about developing in Rails, get this book - it will save you months. If you're the CEO, buy your CTO this book. If you're a freelance web developer, get this to make your customers happy. If you're the internal IT department guy, get this to develop a social networking site this weekend and become rich and famous!
Clearly, I'm biased but I am biased because it's *that* useful. Check out the US reviews as well.
Max Niederhofer, Atlas Venture
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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20 July 2007
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The is essentially a programming cook book with recipes centered on social networking functionality. That being said - this is not a "getting started on rails" book; you should have some idea of how to use rails (but you dont have to be an expert).
Here are some of the recipes: developing a CMS, blog with RSS, blog with web services, a forum, photo gallery (probably would have been better if this one had used Amazon's S3), adding tag functionality, creating a mobile version of your site, XFN, ...
Unless you're a broke student debating between this and food, I'd get this book. There are decent examples that are useful to see. It's pretty good considering Amazon's cheap price and considering this is the only book out on Rails related to social networking sites (as of when I wrote this review).
Update: I've now read the other Ruby on Rails Social Network Book: RailsSpace. In my opinion I would get both. However if you have to choose one it would depend both on your skill level and taste. Would you rather have more subjects covered with less material, or would you like less subjects being covered more in depth. If you want more subjects covered and you think you can figure out the extra details, then Practical Rails Social Networking Sites is for you.
Here are some of the recipes: developing a CMS, blog with RSS, blog with web services, a forum, photo gallery (probably would have been better if this one had used Amazon's S3), adding tag functionality, creating a mobile version of your site, XFN, ...
Unless you're a broke student debating between this and food, I'd get this book. There are decent examples that are useful to see. It's pretty good considering Amazon's cheap price and considering this is the only book out on Rails related to social networking sites (as of when I wrote this review).
Update: I've now read the other Ruby on Rails Social Network Book: RailsSpace. In my opinion I would get both. However if you have to choose one it would depend both on your skill level and taste. Would you rather have more subjects covered with less material, or would you like less subjects being covered more in depth. If you want more subjects covered and you think you can figure out the extra details, then Practical Rails Social Networking Sites is for you.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A good, practical introduction
25 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
Taking readers step-by-step through the creation of the RailsCoders.net website, Practical Rails Social Networking Sites is a well paced guide to building web applications that tick many of the boxes of the moment.
The book starts with basics, giving simple instructions for installing Rails on a variety of platforms, and then steps through simple content management, adding users and groups, building a blogging engine, adding a discussion forum and photo gallery, integrating with Google Maps and Flickr, and deployment. Along the way the various aspects of rails' testing framework are introduced as they're used. The style isn't test-driven, and it would have been nice to see that style introduced, but tests are written after each piece of functionality, demonstrating some of their use and importance.
Judicious use is made of plugins with a number of recommendations made throughout the book. restful_authentication is referred to, but its functionality is largely duplicated in the code. That's probably a sensible move so early in the book as it's important that developers understand what the code is doing even if they're going to employ a plugin for the implementation. YM4R/GM is used to implement the Google Maps functionality and it's good to see that getting some attention in print.
Readers who have already built a couple of rails apps may well find themselves skipping large chunks of content as a lot of the code will be familiar. As other reviewers have noted, it is a little curious that "The Apress Roadmap" suggests this as a more advanced title when it would probably work better for an engaged beginner than an experienced developer.
Of course, the great problem with publishing any rails title right now is that version 2.0 is just around the corner, and with its release we'll see the end of built-in pagination and a few changes to the routes. As a consequence there are likely to be a number of readers who find that the examples in the book fail to run on the latest stable rails by the time they come to try them. Hopefully Apress will be able to offer a brief supplement with the book or online to help readers update the code for the new features.
Practical Rails Social Networking Sites is a solid introduction illustrating how simple it can be to build useful web applications with Ruby on Rails. I'd hesitate to recommend it to anyone with rails experience, but it will be high on my list of recommendations for beginners who are wanting to dive straight in.
Disclaimer: I was sent a copy of this book for review by the publisher.
The book starts with basics, giving simple instructions for installing Rails on a variety of platforms, and then steps through simple content management, adding users and groups, building a blogging engine, adding a discussion forum and photo gallery, integrating with Google Maps and Flickr, and deployment. Along the way the various aspects of rails' testing framework are introduced as they're used. The style isn't test-driven, and it would have been nice to see that style introduced, but tests are written after each piece of functionality, demonstrating some of their use and importance.
Judicious use is made of plugins with a number of recommendations made throughout the book. restful_authentication is referred to, but its functionality is largely duplicated in the code. That's probably a sensible move so early in the book as it's important that developers understand what the code is doing even if they're going to employ a plugin for the implementation. YM4R/GM is used to implement the Google Maps functionality and it's good to see that getting some attention in print.
Readers who have already built a couple of rails apps may well find themselves skipping large chunks of content as a lot of the code will be familiar. As other reviewers have noted, it is a little curious that "The Apress Roadmap" suggests this as a more advanced title when it would probably work better for an engaged beginner than an experienced developer.
Of course, the great problem with publishing any rails title right now is that version 2.0 is just around the corner, and with its release we'll see the end of built-in pagination and a few changes to the routes. As a consequence there are likely to be a number of readers who find that the examples in the book fail to run on the latest stable rails by the time they come to try them. Hopefully Apress will be able to offer a brief supplement with the book or online to help readers update the code for the new features.
Practical Rails Social Networking Sites is a solid introduction illustrating how simple it can be to build useful web applications with Ruby on Rails. I'd hesitate to recommend it to anyone with rails experience, but it will be high on my list of recommendations for beginners who are wanting to dive straight in.
Disclaimer: I was sent a copy of this book for review by the publisher.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Buyer beware
21 Oct 2009
Format:Paperback
Why pay $30 dollars for a book that makes you do all research in order to make code work? This book needs to be taken out of the shelves, catalog, db, etc. Outdated and waste of time and money. It also seems that the "supposed" companion website has been deserted for a while, and the author hasn't comment or find alternate solution for the raising version issues.
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