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12.2 Subscribing to updates 325
Testing comment subscription 325 ■ Automatically adding a user
to a watchlist 327 ■ Unsubscribing from ticket notifications 328
12.3 Real-world email 333
Testing real-world email 334 ■ Configuring Action Mailer 336
Connecting to Gmail 337
12.4 Receiving emails 340
Setting a reply-to address 340 ■ Receiving a reply 342
12.5 Summary 345
Designing an API 347
13.1 The projects API 349
Your first API 351 ■ Serving an API 354 ■ API
authentication 355 ■ Error reporting 356 ■ Serving
XML 358 ■ Creating projects 360 ■ Restricting access to only
admins 362 ■ A single project 365 ■ No project for you! 368
Updating a project 370 ■ Exterminate! 372
13.2 Beginning the tickets API 374
13.3 Rate limiting 377
One request, two request, three request, four 377 ■ No more,
thanks! 379 ■ Back to zero 380
13.4 Versioning an API 381
Creating a new version 381
13.5 Summary 384
Deployment 385
14.1 Server setup 386
Setting up a server using VirtualBox 386 ■ Installing the
base 388
14.2 RVM and Ruby 389
Installing RVM 389 ■ Installing Ruby 390
14.3 Creating a user for the app 391
Key-based authentication 391 ■ Disabling password
authentication 393
14.4 The database server 394
Creating a database and user 394 ■ Ident authentication 395