- Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- About the Reviewer
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to Web Mashups
- 2. 'Find closest' mashup plugin
- What does it do?
- Building a kiosk locator feature for your site
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- What we will be doing
- Creating a new Rails project
- Installing the Rails plugins that will use the various mashup APIs
- Configuring database access and creating the database
- Creating scaffolding for the project
- Populating kiosk locations with longitude and latitude information
- Adding longitude and latitude during kiosk creation entry
- Creating the find closest feature
- Displaying kiosks on Google Maps
- Summary
- 3. Proxy mailing list mashup plugin
- What does it do?
- Building a proxy mailing list feature for your website
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- What we will be doing
- Creating a new Rails project
- Configuring the database access and creating the database
- Creating standard scaffolding
- Allowing the marketing people to create the message templates
- Allowing the reseller to provide contacts data through a remote link
- Creating the rake script to send messages at regular intervals
- Parsing data from the online spreadsheet
- Sending a fax with Interfax
- Sending an SMS through Clickatell
- Sending an email through ActionMailer
- Customizing text messages according to the individual recipient
- Using the mashup
- Summary
- 4. Book sales tracking mashup plugin
- What does it do?
- A book sales tracking and shopping cart feature
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- What we will be doing
- Creating a new Rails project
- Installing the Amazon ECS Ruby library
- Creating the books controller
- Creating the Amazon Rails library
- Creating the sidebar
- Getting customer reviews
- Getting the daily sales ranking
- Displaying the sales ranking sparkline
- Creating a shopping cart
- Adding similar books to the shopping cart
- Summary
- 5. Job board mashup application
- What does it do?
- Job board
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- What we will be doing
- Acquire candidates through Facebook
- Search for jobs through Indeed
- Display jobs in Google Maps
- Search and display job news from Daylife
- Search and display job stories from Technorati
- Acquiring candidates through Facebook
- Searching for jobs through Indeed
- Display jobs in Google Maps
- Searching and displaying news from Daylife
- Searching and displaying blog articles from Technorati
- Summary
- 6. Trip organizer mashup application
- What does it do?
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- What we will be doing
- Creating a Rails application
- Creating the basic Location object
- Creating a search form
- Creating the online map
- Creating the tabs for the information
- Getting information from Wikipedia
- Getting places information
- Getting hotel information
- Getting weather information
- Displaying pictures of the location
- Showing currency exchange rate
- Showing remote location time compared with local time
- Showing nice exception pages
- Summary
- 7. Ticketing mashup application
- 8. Expenses claims mashup plugin
- What does it do?
- Salary and expense claims
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- What we will be doing
- Creating a Rails application
- Setting up the database
- Creating the Payment and Claim Item scaffolds
- Modifying Payment and creatomg subclasses
- Creating the Google API access library
- Creating the Manager class and its controller and views
- Creating the expense claims parsing rake script
- Creating the mass payment rake script
- Modifying the Payment and Claim Item controllers
- How it works all together
- Summary
Author
Chang Sau Sheong
Reviewer
Walt Stoneburner
Senior Acquisition Editor
Douglas Paterson
Development Editor
Nikhil Bangera
Technical Editor
James Lumsden
Editorial Team Leader
Mithil Kulkarni
Project Manager
Abhijeet Deobhakta
Project Coordinators
Aboli Mendhe
Lata Basantani
Indexer
Monica Ajmera
Proofreader
Chris Smith
Production Coordinator
Shantanu Zagade
Cover Work
Shantanu Zagade
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