Practical Rails Social Networking Sites (Expert's Voice)

Description

Practical Rails Social Networking Sites (Expert's Voice)

Publisher: Apress
Number Of Pages: 421
Publication Date: 2007-06-22
Sales Rank: 21304
ISBN / ASIN: 1590598415
EAN: 9781590598412
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Apress
Studio: Apress
Average Rating: 4

Practical Rails Social Networking Sites shows you the complete development cycle of a social networking community web site. The project develops first as a simple content management system, after which author Alan Bradburne progressively adds features in order to build a full Web 2.0--enabled community-based social networking site using Ruby on Rails.

You will learn how to make the best use of the Ruby on Rails framework within a large project and how to implement and adapt features specific to a community. The book offers practical advice and tips for developing and testing, along with guidance on how to take your site live, as well as optimize and maintain it.

The book also explores how to integrate with other community sites such as Flickr and Google Maps, and how to make good use of Rails' Ajax features. You will also learn how to optimize and adapt your site to work well on mobile browsers.

Review:

This book is 'Pay dirt'!

I've purchased almost every Ruby on Rails book that Amazon sells as I am forced to be 'self taught' and thus must 'slug through' every book. This book is a godsend! Alan Bradburne's book is some of the finest and cleanest code I have witnessed and his approach to this book is fine. Unfortunately, I also purchased the RailsSpace - Building a Social Networking Website and this was conversely TERRIBLE. No RESTful routes, lack of direction on where they intended to go, etc.
I heartidly recommend anyone that has to really produce a working product in Rails purchase this fine book and 'Hat's off!' to Alan Bradburne.

Review:

Great book

Great book. It's specific enough that it can be used to develop, as the title suggests, social networking sites, but it's also a modular enough approach that it's feasible to fit the examples into a wider framework, such as adding social networking features to an existing site.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I write books for Apress, who publishes this title. I didn't write *this* book, though, and I don't know the author.)

David Berube
Berube Consulting

Review:

Not Bad

The is essentially a programming cook book with recipes centered on social networking functionality. That being said - this is not a "getting started on rails" book; you should have some idea of how to use rails (but you dont have to be an expert).

Here are some of the recipes: developing a CMS, blog with RSS, blog with web services, a forum, photo gallery (probably would have been better if this one had used Amazon's S3), adding tag functionality, creating a mobile version of your site, XFN, ...

Unless you're a broke student debating between this and food, I'd get this book. There are decent examples that are useful to see. It's pretty good considering Amazon's cheap price and considering this is the only book out on Rails related to social networking sites (as of when I wrote this review).

Update: I've now read the other Ruby on Rails Social Network Book: RailsSpace. In my opinion I would get both. However if you have to choose one it would depend both on your skill level and taste. Would you rather have more subjects covered with less material, or would you like less subjects being covered more in depth. If you want more subjects covered and you think you can figure out the extra details, then Practical Rails Social Networking Sites is for you.

Review:

Interesting book

The book is interesting, but has quickly become outdated. While it covers the basics, it is vague on specifics. To me, a social networking site is something like MySpace, and the book does not go into the depth I'd like to show me how to make that type of site.

Also, Ruby on Rails is far from an enterprise platform. There are also many social networking software packages out there that are a good start out of the box.

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