You're reading from Polished Ruby Programming Build better software with more intuitive, maintainable, scalable, and high-performance Ruby code

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072724

Length 434 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Ruby

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Jeremy Evans

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Fundamental Ruby Programming Principles

2. Chapter 1: Getting the Most out of Core Classes FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Designing Useful Custom Classes

4. Chapter 3: Proper Variable Usage

5. Chapter 4: Methods and Their Arguments

6. Chapter 5: Handling Errors

7. Chapter 6: Formatting Code for Easy Reading

8. Section 2: Ruby Library Programming Principles

9. Chapter 7: Designing Your Library

10. Chapter 8: Designing for Extensibility

11. Chapter 9: Metaprogramming and When to Use It

12. Chapter 10: Designing Useful Domain-Specific Languages

13. Chapter 11: Testing to Ensure Your Code Works

14. Chapter 12: Handling Change

15. Chapter 13: Using Common Design Patterns

16. Chapter 14: Optimizing Your Library

17. Section 3: Ruby Web Programming Principles

18. Chapter 15: The Database Is Key

19. Chapter 16: Web Application Design Principles

20. Chapter 17: Robust Web Application Security

21. Assessments

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Designing URL paths

Once you've selected a web framework, the next important decision to make is how to design the URL path structure for your application. Now, you might be wondering, why does a URL path structure matter for my application, as long as requests are handled as I want them to be handled? Well, how you structure URL paths can affect how your application is designed.

Let's say you have a discussion forum application that deals with forums, topics, and posts. Each forum, such as Ruby Programming Books, can have topics such as Which is the Best Ruby Programming Book?, and each topic can contain many posts from the members of the forum with their thoughts on that topic. There are many possible ways to design a URL path structure for such a forum application.

You could call one approach the flat approach, where each separate type has its own top-level path. For example, you could have the following three URL paths for the forum application: