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

Index | 333

J

Japanese language, 238
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), 59
JavaScript, URI encoding in UTF-8
environments, 249
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), 59

K

Kerckhoffs’ principle, 135
Kernel methods
Array, 48
binding, 27
caller, 50
daemonize, 69
system, 145
kernels, Core Extensions, 69
keys, 231
composite, 112–114
keywords
EXPLAIN, 171
super, 5, 7
kicker methods, 274
klass, 5
Korean language, 238

L

L10n (localization), 236, 290
applications, 250
Globalize example, 258–268
interface/resource translation, 250–255
locale-specific settings, 256
model translation, 257
lambda function, 23
large object deletion, 115
large projects
deployment, 315
application server, 319
Capistrano, 321
continuous integration, 321
front end web server, 317–319
shared-nothing scalability, 316–317
Vlad the Deployer, 321
issue tracking, 308
project structure, 309
environment initialization, 311
externals, 310
gems, 312
multi-application, 313–315
Subversion configuration, 309

version control, 296

branching and merging, 301–306

centralized, 296–299

database migrations, 306–308

decentralized, 299–301

large/binary objects, 101–109

Last-Modified response header, 207

layered system constraint, 186

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access

Protocol), 124

left-to-right (LTR) text, 238

leveraging external programs, 182

lexical variables, continuations, 25–27

lib/ directory, 84

libraries

Action Profiler, 153

Action Web Service (AWS), 231

ActiveLDAP, 124

ActiveSupport (see ActiveSupport)

aspect-oriented programming (AOP), 33

attachment_fu, 107

DataMapper, 272

debugging, 52–56

DrySQL, 111

Ferret, 170

GeoKit, 170

JSON, 59

metaid.rb, 17

ObjectGraph (Og), 275–281

ParseTree, 2

licenses, 84

Lighthouse, 309

Lighttpd servers, 318

X-Sendfile configuration, 106

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

(LDAP), 124

Liquid, 282

Lisp, metaprogramming, 2

list command, 53

load balancing, 120–124

loading

ActionController, 92

files, dependencies, 57

plugins, 79

LOB (see large/binary objects)

local variables, 19

local_request? function, 136

locale, i18n, 236

localization (see L10n)

localize method, 256

logical separation, Liquid, 283