Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Web Mashups
Chapter 2: 'Find closest' mashup plugin
Chapter 3: Proxy mailing list mashup plugin
Chapter 4: Book sales tracking mashup plugin
Chapter 5: Job board mashup application
Chapter 6: Trip organizer mashup application
Chapter 7: Ticketing mashup application
Chapter 8: Expenses claims mashup plugin
Index
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Web Mashups
- Web mashups
- Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- Types of web mashups
- What can I do with web mashups?
- As a new breed of applications
- Access large sets of external sources
- Innovate and create extra value for your application
- Save on development and maintenance
- Leverage on and integrate common and widely available external applications
- Things to watch out for when doing web mashups
- Unreliable external APIs
- Commercial dependency
- Losing your users
- How this book works
- What does it do?
- Domain background
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- What we will be doing
- Summary
- Ready?
- Web mashups
- Chapter 2: 'Find closest' mashup plugin
- What does it do?
- Building a kiosk locator feature for your site
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- Google Maps
- Yahoo Maps
- Geocoder.us
- Geocoder.ca
- Hostip.info
- GeoKit
- Configuring GeoKit
- Getting an application ID from Yahoo
- Getting a Google Maps API key from Google
- Configuring evironment.rb
- YM4R/GM
- What we will be doing
- Creating a new Rails project
- Installing the Rails plugins that will use the various mashup APIs
- Configuring database access and creating the database
- Creating scaffolding for the project
- Populating kiosk locations with longitude and latitude information
- Populate the database with sample data
- Bulk adding of longitude and latitude
- Adding longitude and latitude during kiosk creation entry
- Creating the find closest feature
- Displaying kiosks on Google Maps
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Proxy mailing list mashup plugin
- What does it do?
- Building a proxy mailing list feature for your website
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Define messages
- Get contacts and customized message data
- Send messages
- Sending SMS messages
- Sending fax messages
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- Google Spreadsheets
- EditGrid
- Clickatell
- Interfax
- Net::HTTP
- What we will be doing
- Creating a new Rails project
- Configuring the database access and creating the database
- Creating standard scaffolding
- Allowing the marketing people to create the message templates
- Allowing the reseller to provide contacts data through a remote link
- Uploading to and publishing from Google Spreadsheets
- Uploading to and publishing from EditGrid
- Creating the rake script to send messages at regular intervals
- Parsing data from the online spreadsheet
- Sending a fax with Interfax
- Sending an SMS through Clickatell
- Sending an email through ActionMailer
- Customizing text messages according to the individual recipient
- Using the mashup
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Book sales tracking mashup plugin
- What does it do?
- A book sales tracking and shopping cart feature
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Provide information
- Track sales ranking with a chart
- Show customer reviews
- Provide a shopping cart
- Allow visitors to buy related books
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- Amazon E-Commerce Services API
- Registering for an Amazon Web Service access key ID
- Registering as an Amazon Associate
- Amazon ECS Ruby library
- Sparklines web service
- Amazon E-Commerce Services API
- What we will be doing
- Creating a new Rails project
- Installing the Amazon ECS Ruby library
- Creating the books controller
- Creating the Amazon Rails library
- Creating the sidebar
- Getting customer reviews
- Getting the daily sales ranking
- Displaying the sales ranking sparkline
- Creating a shopping cart
- Adding similar books to the shopping cart
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Job board mashup application
- What does it do?
- Job board
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- Facebook
- Facebook Platform
- RFacebook
- Google Maps
- Indeed
- Technorati
- Daylife
- Net::HTTP
- XmlSimple
- Facebook
- What we will be doing
- Acquire candidates through Facebook
- Search for jobs through Indeed
- Display jobs in Google Maps
- Search and display job news from Daylife
- Search and display job stories from Technorati
- Acquiring candidates through Facebook
- Creating a Rails application
- Creating a Facebook application
- Installing and configuring RFacebook
- Extracting the Facebook user profile
- Displaying the user profile and creating the search form
- Deploying and configuring the Facebook application
- Searching for jobs through Indeed
- Creating the search action
- Parsing and displaying the search results
- Display jobs in Google Maps
- Displaying the location of the jobs on the map
- Creating a link on each job to show the news and blog articles
- Searching and displaying news from Daylife
- Searching for news on the company
- Searching and displaying blog articles from Technorati
- Searching for blog entries on the company
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Trip organizer mashup application
- What does it do?
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- Google Maps
- FUTEF
- WebserviceX Currency Converter
- Yahoo Maps Geocoding API
- WeatherBug
- Kayak
- GeoNames
- Flickr
- Hostip.info
- Open URI
- What we will be doing
- Creating a Rails application
- Creating the basic Location object
- Creating a search form
- Creating the online map
- Creating the tabs for the information
- Getting information from Wikipedia
- Getting places information
- Getting hotel information
- Getting weather information
- Displaying pictures of the location
- Showing currency exchange rate
- Showing remote location time compared with local time
- Showing nice exception pages
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Ticketing mashup application
- What does it do?
- Online event ticketing
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- PayPal
- Website Payment Pro
- PayPal Sandbox
- Ruby-PayPal library
- Google Calendar
- GoogleCalendar library
- Clickatell
- PayPal
- What we will be doing
- Creating a Rails application
- Creating the flow for the ticketing application
- Integrating with PayPal for payment
- Integrating with Google Calendar
- Integrating with Clickatell
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Expenses claims mashup plugin
- What does it do?
- Salary and expense claims
- Requirements overview
- Design
- Mashup APIs on the menu
- PayPal
- Mass Payment
- PayPal Sandbox
- Google
- Google Account Authentication
- Google Data APIs
- Google Document Data List APIs
- Google Spreadsheet Data APIs
- Ruby-PayPal library
- Acts_as_state_machine plugin
- XmlSimple
- PayPal
- What we will be doing
- Creating a Rails application
- Setting up the database
- Creating the Payment and Claim Item scaffolds
- Modifying Payment and creatomg subclasses
- Creating the Google API access library
- Creating the Manager class and its controller and views
- Creating the expense claims parsing rake script
- Creating the mass payment rake script
- Modifying the Payment and Claim Item controllers
- How it works all together
- Summary
