Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

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Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
50+ recipes show you how to integrate lurking legacy material and create
new and highly functional applications in an enterprise environment.

Raleigh, NC-These days, it seems that every web site project is really an
enterprise integration project in disguise. You need to integrate lurking
legacy material and also create new and highly functional applications in
an enterprise environment. You need to build completely new applications
by enhancing and combining existing components in creative, compelling new
ways. And you can do it all using Ruby and Rails.

In Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails (Pragmatic Bookshelf, $38.95)
author Maik Schmidt helps you to overcome typical obstacles hidden in
every enterprise's infrastructure. It doesn't matter if your Rails
application needs to access your company's message-oriented middleware or
if it has to scan through tons of huge XML documents to get a missing
piece of data. Ruby and Rails enable you to create solutions that are both
elegant and efficient.

With more than 50 concise, targeted recipes, this book shows you how to
use existing infrastructure to develop effectively for the enterprise. For
example, Ruby is an excellent language for manipulating both textual and
binary data. This is enormously useful, because typical enterprise
software is about storing and processing huge amounts of data. You'll
learn how to process data in various popular data formats such as XML,
CSV, fixed length records, and JSON.

Maik says, "It's a fact: Ruby and Rails are ready for the enterprise.
Whether you're going to implement only a small service or build a
full-blown distributed application, Ruby will be a strong ally. It has
never been easier to implement not only prototypes but also
industrial-strength applications and services in record time."

This book covers the whole spectrum of distributed application
technologies, ranging from simple socket-based servers to full-blown
Service Oriented Architectures. In addition, Ruby is a perfect ally when
you have to integrate with RESTful and SOAP services, or when you have to
access message-oriented middleware. It even helps you to reuse your
existing C/C++, Java, or .NET code with ease.

Since the advent of the Web, many enterprises have opened their internal
services to the outside world to participate in the rapidly growing world
of e-commerce. As an enterprise programmer you'd better learn how to use
existing payment gateways and how to implement security mechanisms to
protect your company's data and your customers' privacy, and this book
shows you how.

Enterprise programming is not only about developing huge software projects
but also about maintaining and operating them. You'll save a lot of
valuable time if you document your software (automatically, of course) and
automate tedious and recurring tasks, such as monitoring your servers and
testing your programs. Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails covers these
major enterprise concerns, giving you tools and knowledge you'll turn to
over and over.

Advance Praise
"If you're responsible for developing enterprise software, after reading
this book you'll want to review all your projects to see where you can cut
time and money with Ruby and Rails. Maik Schmidt shows us once again that
enterprise software doesn't have to be 'enterprisey.'"
--Steve Vinoski, IEEE Internet Computing Columnist

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Maik Schmidt has worked as a software developer for more than 15 years and
makes a living creating complex solutions for mid-size enterprises.
Outside his day job, he writes book reviews and articles for computer
science magazines and contributes code to open source projects.

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Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Maik Schmidt
ISBN: 9781934356234, 425 pages, $38.95 USD, £27.99 GBP
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