Hi all,
Since there's been a lot of interest and activity lately, I setup a
brief conference call between the various people working on
expressing REST in Ruby on Rails:
* David Hansson
* Dan Kubb
* Charlie Savage
* Peter Williams
and hosted by myself and Rohit Khare (the godfather of
microformats.org).
My notes from that meeting have been fed into the [rest/rails] wiki
page:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/rails#Plug-ins
The main accomplishments of the call were:
a) Defining a coherent scheme for generating RESTful URLs from within
Rails
b) Understanding the different goals of the various plug-ins now in
existence
While I can't say that consensus (or my notes) were perfect,
hopefully it helps provide a starting point for future discussion.
I hope the others will jump in and correct me where needed.
While we probably can't converge on a single controller architecture
due to different conceptual goals (Rails-first vs. REST-first), the
hope is that both (all?) plug-ins would use the same URL conventions
and share common code for the other items, e.g.:
* Conditional GET
* Status Codes
* Content Negotiation
* Caching and Warning Headers
* Authentication and OPTIONS
The ultimate dream is the same -- making Rails a testbed for best-
practice RESTful application design, while will both be useful in
itself and an inspiration for others in this space.
Thanks for everyone who participated, and I hope everyone feels free
to add their own ideas and suggestions.
RESTfully yours,
-- Ernie Prabhakar
uf-REST Moderator
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