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

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V

VACUUM ANALYZE command, 171
validation, client-side, 133
values, functional programming, 36–41
variables
classes, 19
continuations, 25–27
global, 19
instance, deprecated, 58
instances, 19
local, 19
lookup, 19
verbs, 187–190
version control, 296
branching and merging, 301–306
centralized, 296–299
database migrations, 306–308
decentralized, 299–301
versions
Concurrent Versions System (CVS), 297
decentralized control, 82
Subversion, 298
Vietnamese language, 238
VIP (Virtual IP address), 122
virtual classes, 13
Virtual IP address (VIP), 122
Vlad the Deployer, 321
VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy
Protocol), 316, 318

W

warm standby, 123
Web Accelerator, 188
web applications, security design, 127–137

web servers, front end, 317–319

web services

Action Web Service (AWS), 231

Active Resource, 223–230

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) case

study, 231–235

Western European languages, 238

Whiny Nil, 60

whitelists, 137

plugins, 141

working copy, 297

writing

code on-the-fly, 24

inline C code, 182

patches, 291

plugins, 83–85

WWW-Authenticate header, 89

X

X-Sendfile

configuration, 106

sending data with, 105

XSS (cross-site scripting), 139–141

Z

ZenTest suite of tools, 322

zip method, 38