Advanced Rails - Building Industrial-Strength Web Apps in Record Time

Index | 329

consuming RESTful services, 223–230
content negotiation, 194
content types, 193–195
RESTful Rails, 217–219
continuations, 25–27
continuous integration, 321
contributing to Rails, 289–295
conversion
8-bit Unicode Transformation Format
(UTF-8), 248–249
date and time, 64
numeric, 71
cookies, 131, 134
cookie-based sessions, 138
cross-site request forgery (CSRF), 141
CookieStore, 134, 176
limitations of, 138
copy-modify-merge model, 297
Core Extensions, 60–75
arrays, 61
blank? method, 62
class attribute accessors, 62
class inheritable attributes, 62
date and time formats, 63
files, 66
floating-point numbers, 66
hashes, 67
integers, 69
introspection, 70
kernels, 69
modules, 70
numeric conversions, 71
objects, 71
option processing, 61
ranges, 72
strings, 72
TimeZone, 75
create, read, update, delete (CRUD)
operations, 133
cross-site request forgery (CSRF), 141–143
cross-site scripting (XSS), 139–141
CRUD (create, read, update, delete)
operations, 133
CruiseControl, 322
cryptography, Kerckhoffs’ principle, 135
CSRF (cross-site request forgery), 141–143
customization
caching, 221
Rake tasks, 288
resource routes, 213
CVS (Concurrent Versions System), 297

D

DabbleDB, 27

daemons, 69

memcached, 175

pg_autovacuum, 171

data partitioning, 115

databases

8-bit Unicode Transformation Format

(UTF-8), 245

advanced features, 109–116

application versus integration, 109

caching, 119, 176

action, 177

fragment, 178

page, 177

sweepers, 180

composite keys, 112–114

constraints, 110

database management systems

(DBMSs), 96

MySQL, 98

Oracle, 100

PostgreSQL, 97

SQL Server, 100

SQLite, 100

dependencies, testing plugin, 93

high availability, 120–124

indexing, performance, 167–171

large/binary objects, 101–109

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

(LDAP), 124

load balancing, 120–124

migration, 306–308

multiple, connecting, 116–118

ObjectGraph (Og), 279

passwords, hashing, 128, 129

performance, 171

query plans, 171–173

rules, 114

SQL injection attacks, 144

storage, 102

stored procedures, 114

triggers, 114

DataMapper library, 272

dates

conversions, 64

formats, 63

DBMSs (database management systems), 96

MySQL, 98

Oracle, 100