ALTERthought Blogs Archives: July 2006
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25 July 2006
Java on Rails? Trails: What it is (and isn’t)
Much to-do has been made recently about Rails, and the productivity gains that are to be had from the infrastructure it provides. Listed among these gains comes a productivity boost that can be had from the embracing of a Domain Driven Development approach, whereby the developer concentrates on the Domain model and the framework (in […]
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20 July 2006
Developing RESTful Web Services in Java
When you think of Web services, SOAP immediately comes to your mind. Not any more! Thanks to REST, there is a simpler way to develop web services. While SOAP is well established with most vendors supporting it, REST is really catching up.
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems. REST relies […]
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19 July 2006
HelpEngine is Up and Running
Before the Rails Engine In-Depth Tutorial was written, there was an idea - to create a system that could effortlessly handle web page support. It had to be user-friendly. It had to be sleek. It had to be a Rails Engine.
Introducing HelpEngine, the inspiration for writing the Rails Engine In-Depth Tutorial. HelpEngine allows the developer […]
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14 July 2006
How to Build a Ruby on Rails Engine: In-depth Start-to-Finish Tutorial
0. What is an Engine?
An engine is a type of plugin which can handle an entire MVC slice of a Rails application. Engines let developers separate complete chunks of functionality and are easily shared between programs.
Engines are one of the cryptic areas of Rails. Only a handful of publicly released Engines exist. The engine documentation […]
