Service-oriented design with Ruby and Rails
by Paul Dix · first published 2011
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Sinatra with Ruby. Pretty good play by play instructions on Paul Dix book Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321659368/1n9867a-20
on “Ask HN: Suggest a technology to build a restful API for our wbesite” ↗…things I love about Sinatra is that pretty much everything you need to know is in the README. Otherwise, understanding how Rack/your web server/your gems work is useful. From another angle, Paul Dix's Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails has a lot of examples of using Sinatra in a variety of applications.
on “Sinatra::Synchrony - Evented, fast, concurrent Ruby web apps with no callbacks” ↗…thousands of files (not including plugins and gems) across the whole app. They are experiencing scaling issues but not for requests per second, but for developer productivity. I'm reading a great book called Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails, by Paul Dix. He states a lot of the issues that our team is running into with a monolithic app. Seems also that these issues can apply to other frameworks outside of Rails (I've run into some of these…
on “Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM [video]” ↗…Development with Rails (Fourth Edition) --Rails Tutorial w. Rails 3 is very good. --Beginning Rails 3 by Carneiro and Barazi is excellent --The Rails 3 Way by Fernandez is difficult if not expanding --Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails by Dix is impressive and thorough --Rails Antipatterns is a great look at refactoring Ruby --Refactoring by Fields, Harview, Fowler, Beck is good. --Metaprogramming in ruby by Perrotta is exciting.…
on “Ask HN: Rails 3 book recommendations?” ↗