What is needed to develop enterprise application with Rails? Throughout this book you will be working on an example enterprise project to learn first hand what is involved in architecting serious web applications. With this book, you will: Tour the layout of a company's ideal system: how Rails fits, and that element does not rely on Rails Learn to structure Rails 2.0 applications to complex web sites Discover how plugins can support reusable code and improve application clarity Build a solid data model - the fortress - that protects your data from corruption Base an ActiveRecord model in view of the database, and build support for multiple table inheritance Explore service-oriented architecture and web services with XML-RPC and REST See how caching can be a reliable way to improve performance Build to scale requires more work up front, but you will have a flexible website that can be extended easily when your needs change. Enterprise Rails teaches you how to architect scalable Rails applications from the ground up.