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

Index | 331

F

fallback, security, 135
FastCGI handler (RailsFCGIHandler), 78
feature branches, 303
Ferret library, 170
fields, hidden form, 133
File methods
expand_path, 144
join, 47
open, 47
files
access, merging, 298
Core Extensions, 66
dependencies, 57
.mo, 252
plugins, 83
.pot, 251
static, asset hosts for, 319
text, copy-modify-merge model, 297
translation, creating, 253
X-Sendfile, sending data with, 105
FileStore, 174, 179
filesystems, storage, 103
filtering, 37
8-bit Unicode Transformation Format
(UTF-8), 244
find method, 37
find_all method, 37
find_with_attributes method, 281
finding code in the Rails framework, 49
first-class functions, 36
flags, 5
flat profiles, 158
floating-point numbers, 66
foreign key indexes, 168
forms
hidden fields, 133
parameters, 131
processing, 132
Forwardable, 31
fragments
caching, 178
expiration, 180
framework_backtrace method, 66
front end web server, 317–319
full-text indexing, 99, 169
functional programming, 36–41
functionality, adding to existing methods, 32

functions

_( ), 251

anonymous, 36

authenticated, 131

call_stack_off, 51

call_stack_on, 51

escape, 249

establish_connection, 284

higher-order, 36

if_modified, 221

lambda, 23

local_request?, 136

method_missing, 17

sendfile, 104

G

garbage collection

Benchmark library, 152

methods, 29

gems (see RubyGems)

generative programming, 24

GeoKit library, 170

GET method, 143, 188

gettext, 250–253

Gibberish, 253–254

global searches, 56

global variables, 19

Globalize, 254, 257

example of, 258–268

glyphs, 239

GNU gettext, 250–253

GOTO construct, 26

graceful degradation, 135

grapheme, 239

grep method, 38

grouping arrays, 61

H

Haml, 283

Han characters, 239

Han unification, 241

Hash class, 67

hash message authentication code

(HMAC), 143

Hash methods

assert_valid_keys, 68

delete, 48

diff, 67

from_xml, 67