ervice-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails covers Ruby libraries for building and consuming RESTful web services, which generally refers to services that respond to HTTP requests. Further, the APIs of these services are defined by the URIs requested and the method (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) used. While the focus of the book is on a REST-based approach, there are sections where the authors deviate from a purist style. In these cases the goal is to provide clarity or flexibility to a proposed service. The primary topics covered in the book are REST, HTTP verbs, and response codes; API Design; Building Services in Ruby; Connecting to Services; Consuming JSON and XML based services ; Architecture Design; Choosing a data store; and Securing Services.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Implementing Your First Service

Chapter 2: Service-Oriented Architecture Introduction

Chapter 3: Case Studies

Chapter 4: RESTful Primer

Chapter 5: API Design

Chapter 6: Connecting to Services

Chapter 7: Parsing Service Responses

Chapter 8: Code Reuse Across Services

Chapter 9: Choosing a Data Store

Chapter 10: Load Balancing and Caching

Chapter 11: Architecture, Security, and Authentication

Chapter 12: Putting It all Together (Building a Services-Based CMS)

Chapter 13: Deployment Scenarios