How's the development of Hark coming along? Any progress?

- James

On 9/20/06, Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:57:37 +0200, Casper Fabricius wrote:
>
> > I think this sounds like a great project, and you seem to have made the
> > right choices, at least for my liking. What could be extra cool, was to have
> > an ambition about being completely CRUD using Simply RESTful, most of all
> > because I'd like to learn from that accomplishment - and it would 100%
> > compatible with all the nice API stuff etc. coming out of that.
>
> I've thought about that, but I'm not convinced yet that CRUD maps nicely to
> the idea of logging in.  In fact, most of the time, I suspect, you'll never
> even explicitly call the login action; you'll be going to a page on the
> site, and it'll have a before_filter to an authorization function that will
> redirect you to the login page.
>
> Of course, since the controller itself is so lightweight, there's nothing
> preventing you from defining your own CRUD actions, whether you are mapping
> CRUD to the account or to a login session.  I expect that the built-in
> controller will serve as a scaffold more than anything.  But, to me,
> verb-based actions are a better choice for Hark, at least till I see an
> argument otherwise!
>
> > I also think your spec is really nice - it seems map perfectly to a set of
> > integration tests. Is this some kind standard; rspec?
>
> Good eye - they are, in fact, the output of running a set of tests using
> rspec (http://rspec.rubyforge.org).  rspec doesn't yet do integration tests
> in the Rails sense (multiple controllers/simultaneous sessions), so I'll
> probably end up writing those under Test::Unit, but someday I hope this
> project can be completely spec-driven.
>
> Jay
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