Book description
This book serves as a practical guide to developing RESTful applications, designing RESTful architectures, and deploying RESTful services using Ruby on Rails. By the end of each chapter, the reader will have key takeaways for how to build and extend a multi-service platform spanning different devices. The book explains the power of RESTful development with Rails, illustrating how to build an architecture composed of different services accessing shared resources through a set of collaborating APIs and applications.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. From Hypertext to Hyperdata
- 2. Getting Started with Ruby on Rails
- 3. First Adventures in API Design
- 4. The REST of the World
- 5. Designing APIs in RoR
- 6. Asynchronous REST
- 7. Testing RESTful Services
- 8. Microservices and Microapplications
- 9. Mapping Data Streams onto an Application UI
- 10. Deploying an API
- 11. Managing an App Ecosystem
- 12. Consuming Data Streams: Integrating External APIs in Your Application
- 13. Device-Independent Development
- 14. Data Analytics
- 15. Scaling Gracefully
- 16. Privacy and Security
- A. HTTP Quick Reference
- Index
Product information
- Title: RESTful Rails Development
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491910856
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