Hi Dave,
On 11/8/06, Dave Amos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Ruby folks,
I have more of a general information sort of question. Right now I work for
Idealist.org, a nonprofit with an office here in Portland. Idealist, like
many other websites, offers an API, thought we only offer an API for Perl
and Java. I talked briefly with someone here who's in charge of the API,
and he said it's possible for someone to write an API for ruby, since they
have an SDK which is platform independent. (At this point I'm starting to
talk about things I know little about, and I think it shows). Since I,
until now simply a humble XHTML+CSS guy, has started doing Ruby on Rails
stuff, I thought it would be fun to combine my work at Idealist with my new
passion for RoR.
Here's the question: Is creating an API something that is considered
"advanced", as in out of the reach of beginner programmers? If I started to
work on it, is it something that would likely frustrate me and go nowhere?
I really don't have a clue right now.
If you need more information about the Idealist SDK to answer my question,
the link is here:
http://www.idealist.org/web-services/index.html,
http://www.idealist.org/web-services/faq.html
The faq states "We will NEVER do a .NET version...". I'm curious as
to why. What's the difference between a SOAP and a .NET version?
I did not know you were in portland. Cool. A friend of mine
mentioned your website to me last summer and when I looked at it I did
not realize you had this service. How long has idealist.org had
published web services? It is interesting to see an explanation for
why your site would want to publish them. Are they helping alleviate
problems and enable opportunities in the stated two purposes? Very
interesting to stuff.
As for ruby based web services Geoffrey Grosenbach up in seattle put
together a video recently for RESTful rails,
http://peepcode.com/articles/2006/10/08/restful-rails
Here is a good page to decrypt the alphabet soup,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_services
Keep us posted on your progress. It's good to hear points of view
from outside the ruby community.
Welcome to the group. :-) And hope to meet you at the next meeting.
Aaron
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