Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects: Bringing Ruby on Rails to Java™ Platform

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. Foreword by Pat Eyler
6. Foreword by Martin Fowler
7. About the Author
8. About the Technical Reviewer
9. Acknowledgments
10. CHAPTER 1 Introduction
    1. Background
    2. Why JRuby on Rails?
    3. Overview of the Book
    4. Summary
11. CHAPTER 2 Getting Started
    1. Installing JRuby
    2. RubyGems
    3. Setting Up a Database
    4. Summary
12. PROJECT 1 The Store (Shoplet)
    1. CHAPTER 3 Introduction to Rails
       1. The Structure of a Rails Application
       2. The Other Parts of Rails
       3. Rails Helper Scripts
       4. Testing
       5. Plug-Ins
       6. Summary
    2. CHAPTER 4 Store Administration
       1. Creating a New Rails Application
       2. Running with Mongrel
       3. A First Model
       4. Unit Testing Products
       5. Creating a Scaffold for Products
       6. More Models
       7. Adding Some Authentication
       8. Functional Tests
       9. Summary
    3. CHAPTER 5 A Database-Driven Shop
       1. Browsing Products
       2. Adding a Shopping Cart
       3. Validation and Testing
       4. ActiveRecord and JDBC
       5. Summary
13. PROJECT 2 A Content Management System (CoMpoSe)
    1. CHAPTER 6 Java Integration
       1. Using Java Resources
       2. Extending Java
       3. Java Collections
       4. Gotchas
       5. Using Ruby from Java
       6. Summary
    2. CHAPTER 7 A Rails CMS
       1. The Database
       2. The Model
       3. Some Layout
       4. Administration Interface
       5. Some Security
       6. Summary
    3. CHAPTER 8 Content Rendering
       1. Content Rendering with XML
       2. Other Ways to Render Content
       3. Finishing CoMpoSe
       4. Summary
14. PROJECT 3 An Administration System (Big Brother)
    1. CHAPTER 9 A JRuby Enterprise Bean
       1. The Sequence Database
       2. A JRuby Sequence Engine
       3. A JRuby Bean Wrapper
       4. Summary
    2. CHAPTER 10 An EJB-Backed Rails Application
       1. The EJB Client Revisited
       2. Creating the Application
       3. Creating a Small Sequence Library
       4. Sequence Controller and Views
       5. JMX for the Server
       6. Simple JMX Access to Rails
       7. Summary
    3. CHAPTER 11 Deployment
       1. Deploying Ruby on Rails
       2. Deploying JRuby on Rails
       3. Best Practice JRuby on Rails Deployment
       4. Summary
15. PROJECT 4 A Library System (LibLib)
    1. CHAPTER 12 Web Services with JRuby
       1. The LibLib System
       2. Amazon Web Services
       3. SOAP4R
       4. SOAP with Java
       5. Creating a Small Book Library
       6. Summary
    2. CHAPTER 13 JRuby and Message-Oriented Systems
       1. What Is MOM?
       2. The Legacy System
       3. ActiveMessaging
       4. JRuby and Message-Driven Beans
       5. A Library for Legacy Interaction
       6. Inter-Rails Communication
       7. Summary
    3. CHAPTER 14 The LibLib Rails Application
       1. The Database
       2. Deploying More Than One Rails Instance
       3. Creating the Model
       4. Views and Controllers
       5. Summary
    4. CHAPTER 15 Coda: Next Steps
       1. JRuby-extras
       2. Contributing to JRuby
       3. Home Projects
       4. Summary
16. APPENDIX A Ruby for Java Programmers
    1. Core Ruby
    2. Classes and Modules
    3. Blocks
    4. Metaprogramming
    5. The Symbol to_proc Trick
17. APPENDIX B JRuby Reference
    1. Classes and Interfaces
    2. Primitive Arrays
    3. Extensions to Java Classes
    4. The JRuby Module
    5. require
18. APPENDIX C Resources
    1. Ruby and Rails
    2. JRuby
    3. Other
19. Index