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

Index | 327

attr_protected method, 132
attributes
accessors, 62
configuration, 75
inheritance, 62
authenticated function, 131
authentication, 127–130, 290
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) case
study, 232
hash message authentication code
(HMAC), 143
HTTP Authentication plugin, 89
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol), 125
message authentication code (MAC), 134
Representational State Transfer
(REST), 204
authorization, 290
autoprops, Subversion, 309
AutoTest, 322
availability, 292
high, 120–124
average, 148
AWS (Action Web Service), 231

B

backtrace (bt) command, 53
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), 240
before_save callback method, 130
Benchmark, code timing, 151–153
benchmarking, 161–164
benefits of Representational State Transfer
(REST), 205–209
bidirectional text, 238
Binding class, 27
bindings, 27
black-box analysis, 148–151
blacklists, 137
blank? method, 62
BLOB (see large/binary objects)
blocks
code procs, 20–23
RESTful Rails, 218
BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane), 240
Borges, 26
bottom-up programming, 3
branches, 297
branching, 301–306
buckets, 231
Bugzilla, 308
business logic constraints, 110
BYTEA data type, 102

C

C, writing inline code, 182

Cache-Control header, 208

caching

action, 177

constraints, 186

custom, 221

databases, 119

fragment, 178

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP),

RESTful Rails, 219–222

page, 177

performance, 176

Representational State Transfer

(REST), 206

sweepers, 180

calculations

statistical, 65

time, 64

call stacks

continuations, 25–27

reading, 50

call_stack_off function, 51

call_stack_on function, 51

Calls columns, scanning profiles, 158

canonicalization, 143

Unicode, 243

Capistrano, 321

centralized version control, 296–299

chaining, methods, 33

chains, method lookup, 7

character encodings, 237

characters

compatibility, 243

composition, 243

encodings

ASCII, 237

Unicode, 238–249

multibyte support, 242

precomposed, 243

checkout, 297

Chinese language, 238

Class#const_missing method, 57

class_def method, 18

classes

attribute accessors, 62

Binding, 27

DelegateClass, 30

Dispatcher, 77

Hash, 67

inheritable attributes, 62