Cloning Internet Applications With Ruby: Make Your Own Tinyurl, Twitter, Flickr, Or Facebook Using Ruby

This is a hands-on book with plenty of well-explained code. Each chapter has a standalone project emphasizing a complete web application with specific features of a social networking site. The final chapter features a fully developed social networking site. Each chapter begins with a brief description of the Internet service features and market. It explains how to design a clone, describes technologies used, and provides step-by-step building instructions with code examples. The book is aimed at web application programmers with intermediate Ruby knowledge, familiar with web application workings, and some experience with the cloned services. It is suitable for those wanting to make customized applications like TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, or Facebook, or to include such features in their own web applications.