Make a clone of some of the best in Web applications using object-oriented features of dynamic and Ruby Build your own custom social network, shorten the URL, and photo sharing sites using Ruby Deploy and launch your custom application of high-end web Learn what makes the popular social networking sites such as Twitter and check for Understanding the features of some of the most famous photo sharing and social networking sites A fast-paced tutorial to get you up and running by cloning some of the most impressive applications available on the Web. The application is popular often provide essential services that we need even when we do not fully understand its features or how they work. This book shows readers how to clone some of the most popular Internet applications in Ruby by first identifying their main features, and then shows an example of Ruby code to mimic this functionality. The main purpose of this book is to break down popular internet services like TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, and up to understand what makes it successful. Then use Ruby, this book describes how a minimal set of features for this site can be modeled, built, and used on the Internet. Break up and rewrite the popular social networking and other Internet applications using Ruby What you will learn from this book in depth Discover the major features of TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook and what makes them work Find out how each of the popular Internet service can be modeled with DataMapper Create a clone from an Internet service using the Rack and Sinatra Use third-party authentication providers with internet service OpenID Spreading cloned into the cloud using Amazon S3 Heroku Use to store your data for clones Approach This is a hand-book with a lot of wells - the code is described. Each chapter has a standalone project in which the complete web application with certain features of social networking sites are emphasized. You also should know how web applications work and you have used at least some internet services previously cloned. Programmers who want to include Internet service features into their own web applications will also find this book interesting.