Taking the Plunge with REST on Rails

So yesterday I finally got friendly with ActiveResource. You know about ActiveResource, right? All the cool kids living on the Edge(Rails) are doing it. It's a way to create your Rails apps with an XML API baked right in, and is an interesting way to turn web development on its head. Yet it makes perfect sense, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel ActiveResource is simply using technology (the HTTP protocol) that has been around for a very long time. I'm still wrapping my head around all of it, so I'll follow up later next week with my impressions of ActiveResource. h2. Bedtime Reading DHH "introduces":http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000593.html his new brain child. Scott Raymond "Refactors to REST":http://scottraymond.net/articles/2006/07/20/refactoring-to-rest. The guys over at Softies on Rails have a "quick start guide":http://www.softiesonrails.com/articles/2006/09/25/quick-guide-to-the-new-scaffold_resource-generator to get you going. Ryan Daigle gives a "good overview":http://www.ryandaigle.com/articles/2006/08/01/whats-new-in-edge-rails-simply-restful-support-and-how-to-use-it of all the new REST magic and how to helps shape your controllers.

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0 So yesterday I finally got friendly with ActiveResource. You know about ActiveResource, right? All the cool kids living on the Edge(Rails) are doing it. It’s a way to create your Rails apps with an XML API baked right in, and is an interesting way to turn web development on its head. Yet it makes perfect sense, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel ActiveResource is simply using technology (the HTTP protocol) that has been around for a very long time. I’m still wrapping my head around all of it, so I’ll follow up later next week with my impressions of ActiveResource. <h2>Bedtime Reading</h2> DHH <a href="http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000593.html">introduces</a> his new brain child. Scott Raymond <a href="http://scottraymond.net/articles/2006/07/20/refactoring-to-rest">Refactors to REST</a>. The guys over at Softies on Rails have a <a href="http://www.softiesonrails.com/articles/2006/09/25/quick-guide-to-the-new-scaffold_resource-generator">quick start guide</a> to get you going. Ryan Daigle gives a <a href="http://www.ryandaigle.com/articles/2006/08/01/whats-new-in-edge-rails-simply-restful-support-and-how-to-use-it">good overview</a> of all the new REST magic and how to helps shape your controllers. 78

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