Rails - Aug 2007 - Getting up to speed on rest with edge rails

Other then digging through the edge rails docs and trying to put it
all together that way, is there a good resource for using REST in edge
rails?  It''s what I don''t know that I''m worried
about.  I don''t want
to get too far into the implementation only to find out I missed
something rather important.

Chris

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Hi Chris,
> Other then digging through the edge rails docs and trying to put it
> all together that way, is there a good resource for using REST in edge
> rails?  It''s what I don''t know that I''m worried
about.  I don''t want
> to get too far into the implementation only to find out I missed
> something rather important.
Using REST in Edge Rails isn''t all too different from what''s
currently
in Rails 1.2 -- at least when you look at it from a RESTful development 
perspective. Rethinking how you build up controllers around resources 
really is what it''s all about. The rest is technological niceties and 
syntactic sugar.

A couple of pointers:

 - AWDwR 2.0 has a short but sweet introduction into RESTful 
development.

 - Edge Rails no longer has "plain scaffolds" and "resource
scaffolds".
It''s a scaffold, period, and it''s all good and RESTful.

 - Edge Rails has a new syntax for nested resources that is explained 
very well in config/routes.rb. (Debate about nested resources rages on 
in Ruby-core.)

 - There are a lot of blogging posts on "refactoring rest". One
article
by Scott Raymond in particular shows how you can rethink a fairly 
large-scale application into the world of REST.

 - Finally, if you are looking to consume resources as a web service, 
there are excellent blog postings and conference slides available on 
ActiveResource.

That should get you started. Don''t worry about getting into the 
implementation to find out that you can do better. That''s one aspect of
agility that''s a prize for a developer to have, and a thing to enjoy of
Rails.

Good luck in your RESTful journeys! :-)

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Roderick van Domburg
http://www.nedforce.nl
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