Enterprise Integration with Ruby
by Maik Schmidt
Learn how the power and elegance of Ruby can make it easier to get enterprise-level applications to work together. See how Ruby can be used as the glue to combine applications in new ways, extending their lives and increasing their (and your) value to your company.
ISBN: 978-0-9766-9406-9
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About this Book
This book shows how new applications can be rapidly constructed by combining existing enterprise systems, all with a fraction of the effort of conventional application development
With this book, you’ll:
- Solve difficult integration problems easily and quickly
- Use relational databases and LDAP effectively
- Automate your software deployment process
- Process and transfer XML documents
- Tie distributed applications together using Sockets, HTTP, REST, XML-RPC, SOAP, and other technologies
Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of applications, components, services, and databases. These run on heterogeneous operating systems and hardware, they use databases and messaging systems from various vendors, and they were written in different programming languages. And it’s your job to make them work together.
his book shows you how the power and elegance of Ruby can greatly simplify your job. Use it as a glue language to bind your enterprise applications using technologies including:
- Oracle, MySQL, and friends: use relational databases directly, and via mapping layers such as ActiveRecord.
- LDAP: Harness the power of directory services.
- XML Documents: create, validate, and read XML documents for easy information interchange
- Sockets, HTTP, and REST: sometimes the low-level communications protocols are the simplest way to get things moving.
- XML-RPC, SOAP, CORBA, RMI and others: and sometimes you need the high-level protocols to get the job done
This isn’t a book full of theory. Maik builds real life applications to illustrate all the techniques and technologies. It isn’t a love fest either: Maik isn’t afraid to point out the weaknesses in the approaches and in the libraries he’s describing.
This is a pragmatic book
Contents and Extracts
(Some of these are partial chapters.)
- Start of LDAP section, extracted from the Databases chapter
- Start of the XML chapter, which talks about options for generating XML in Ruby.
- Start of the Low Ceremony RPC chapter, showing how simple protocols have powerful uses.
About the Author
Maik Schmidt has worked as a software developer for more than a decade. He makes a living from creating complex solutions for mid-size enterprises. Besides his day-job he writes book reviews and articles for computer science magazines and contributes code to Open Source projects. In his spare time he enjoys reading, blogging, and scuba diving.
