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...e I refactored? How would I feel if I couldn''t refactor because doing so will break all those GUIs? Thought so. A web service interface needs to be stable, hiding the implementation and any changes in it. It needs to be *decoupled* from changes ot the internal schema. Rails is built on _extraction_. It seems to me that ActiveResource - along with all the upcoming REST pixie dust - has been dreamt up before actually being used in succesful apps. Is there any publically available app exposing an ActiveResource api? Does it have any external clients? I''m all for REST, and I''...