Enterprise Integration with Ruby

By Maik Schmidt

Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of applications, components, services, and databases. Many of them are custom built in-house or by third parties, some are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976694069
• ISBN13: 9780976694069
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

RUBY RED INTEGRATION!!

Are you an experienced enterprise developer who knows Java, C#, or C++, but doesn't know much about Ruby? If you are, then this book is for you. Author Maik Schmidt, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that shows you Ruby's strengths and how Ruby helps you accomplish many tasks much faster, more elegantly, and with more fun than with any other programming language available today. Schmidt, begins by showing you not only how to directly manipulate different types of databases, but also how to access the musing more advanced tools such as object-relational mappers and database abstraction layers. Then, the author covers the most important XML-processing requirements. Next, he shows you how to use plain sockets and pure HTTP to separate concerns and to distribute business logic across process boundaries. The author also demonstrates the usage of protocol standards. Finally, he shows you how to overcome internationalization problems, how to create sophisticated logging strategies, how to create your own daemon processes, and how to automatically deploy your software. In this most excellent book, the author does not talk about sophisticated messaging patterns. More importantly, the author covers the basics.

Great book once you have learnt Ruby and are trying to use it at work

I think this is a great book for someone who already knows a little bit about Ruby to learn how to use it within their heterogeneous environment. Like most books that develop a continually growing sample application, this book is best read end-to-end. However each section can be read on it's own, allowing the reader to skip to the section most relevant at a given time. Each section has a very clearly defined purpose, and where possible Maik describes multiple ways of achieving a given goal, plus he explains potential pitfalls (all with a gentle humor and easy going style that makes this book a pleasure to read). This is not a beginner's book - as identified on the back cover, and in the introductory text - you are expected to know some Ruby before attempting this book. However writing for a more skilled audience may be the reason for my only complaint: the assumption that the reader will be familiar with how to set up the environment(s) necessary to work through the examples. For example, there is no explanation of how to set up the Oracle tables or data - even a single sentence stating that SQL scripts could be found on the website would have made this a little more helpful. This is a very minor issue though, and unlikely to cause major problems for most readers. This is a very good book, and one that I am likely to continually refer to for considerable time.

great book

this is a really great book. it is the perfect companion to Programming Ruby. it explains in an very easy way how to use XML, SOAP, databases, LDAP and more with Ruby. and there is a great chapter about rake. the examples are easy to follow and the writing style is fun. the book really shows what Ruby can do for your daily life as a programmer, but also shows where it still has it's limitations. the author really knows his subject and I have found no errors or typos in the book. if you use Ruby, this book is highly recommended !!