Maricris Nonato
RoR enthusiast
UNDERSTANDING WEB APPS
and
tips on creating your own
using Ruby on RAILS
What is a WEB Application?
A web application is an application utilizing web
and [web] browser technologies to accomplish one
or more tasks over a network,
typically through a [web] browser.
Bento Box
Benefits in using RoR
Convention
over
Configuration
Structured code
and
neat markup
MVC
=
MODEL
VIEW
CONTROLLER
Database Agnostic
(STORAGE)
INTERBASE SQLITE
POSTGRESQL
MySQL MS SQL
ORACLE
MongoDB CouchDB
CASSANDRA
RIAK REDIS
TOKYO TYRANT
Benefits of RDBMS
Durability
Consistency
Guarantees atomicity
Data portability
Powerful, customizeable SQL queries
Benefits of a NoSQL DB
Faster queries
Store massive data
Better scaling
SERVER SIDE
(INFRASTRUCTURE)
LIGHTTPD NGINX / UNICORN
APACHE / PASSENGER
MONGREL THIN
REST
Re - Representational
S - State
T - transfer
HTTP for everything
postdata , read data, and delete data
CRUD
Create / Read / Update / Delete
Style
and
Structure
(FRONT END FRAMEWORKS)
HTML + CSS + JAVASCRIPT
HTML
HAML / ERB / SLIM
aids faster development on RoR views
forces beautiful code
CSS
SASS / LESS
allows for some programmatic computations, mixins, nested rules--in short, some form of intelligence to CSS
See comparison of SASS vs LESS:
http://wrangl.com/sass-v-less
JAVASCRIPT
JQUERY JQUERY MOBILE
COFFEESCRIPT MODERNIZR
HANDLEBARS
BACKBONE SPINE
HTML + CSS + JS
COMBO!!!
HTML5 BOILERPLATE
TWITTER BOOTSTRAP
ZURB FOUNDATION
Understanding Web Apps
By Maricris Nonato
