Rails - Aug 2006 - REST, Resource, etc

So, what''s the deal with all this REST and Resource stuff?  Why should
I care about it?  How does it help me?  Why is it cool?

Everywhere I see the stuff mentioned, it assumes you already know what
it is and why it''s good.

Thanks,
Joe

On 8/2/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
wrote:
> So, what''s the deal with all this REST and Resource stuff?  Why
should
> I care about it?  How does it help me?  Why is it cool?
>
> Everywhere I see the stuff mentioned, it assumes you already know what
> it is and why it''s good.
The Rails trac is giving me an error when I try to submit a patch, so
here''s a diff:

Index: railties/lib/code_statistics.rb
==================================================================---
railties/lib/code_statistics.rb     (revision 106)
+++ railties/lib/code_statistics.rb     (working copy)
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
           stats["lines"]     += 1
           stats["classes"]   += 1 if line =~ /class [A-Z]/
           stats["methods"]   += 1 if line =~ /def [a-z]/
-          stats["codelines"] += 1 unless line =~ /^\s*$/ || line =~
/^\s*#/
+          stats["codelines"] += 1 unless line =~ /^\s*$/ || line =~
/^\s*#/ || line =~ /[,\+\-\*\/]\s*$/
         end
       end