7.4. Wrapping Up
Testing concludes our whirlwind tour through the
Rails framework. We've barely scratched the surface. Photo Share is
not nearly complete. We could have easily added:
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Security, with the Rails login generator or one
of the other login products. With a security model, you can let
each user manage and share her own set of photos, instead of having
one community model.
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Uploading photos. You need to let the user
upload photos with some other means, but Rails provides excellent
support for simple tasks such as file uploads.
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Deployment. We've not even touched on pushing
the Photo Share application into production, but good tools such as
Capistrano (http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/17)
allow one-click deployment and also one-click reversal of
changes.
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Comments and blogging. You can allow discussion
about slides and slideshows. Simple support isn't difficult, but
you can also build in the Typo blogging engine.
We've decided that these changes are beyond the
scope of a quick-start book, but this list provides a sample of the
community that's rapidly developing behind Rails. After this pass
through Photo Share, you doubtlessly will be excited about doing
more. In the appendixes that follow, we'll give you another
whirlwind tour of what's available and how to find more
information.
In Rails, an idea is rapidly crystallizing
before our eyes as a real force in this industry, but this
phenomenon is unlike anything you've ever seen before. So far, this
explosion is happening within the open source community, without
major commercial investment, and with an amazing amount of
contribution from increasingly diverse contributors. The growth is
fueled by a core of smart developers who understand that beautiful
software can also be powerful, that useful development environments
don't need to come from a corporation, and that real innovation
doesn't always take the path you expect. We hope you've experienced
a taste of what is to come. The rules are all changing. Welcome to
the new game.
Only the YAML format allows you to name a
fixture, so if you use the CSV format, you will not be able to do
this.
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