| Hi Sixtus,
Can you position your efforts regarding http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html ?
I am (based on limited information) a big fan of GData. I liked the Atom Publishing Protocol, but was frustrated that it didn't have any query semantics.
The short answer is that we want to do with HTML/hAtom what they are doing with Atom. And we're not too proud to borrow all their good ideas. :-)
- Ernie P.
Hello Ernie,
very nice, thanks for the effort. As it is way past my bedtime, just a quick question:
Can you position your efforts regarding http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html ?
Cheers,
Hagen
On 4/22/06, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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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