I haven't had great success with ActiveResource, but I guess if you tune the APIs to meet its fairly limited abilities, it might work.
I'd say use the gem I made for consuming REST APIs of a particular design, but it's a bit unfinished :) Did work somewhat nicely in most situations though. Simon. On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 08:01, ben wiseley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Fred! > > If you have control over all three apps and this api isn't going to be used > by an unknown third party I'd really consider going the engine route instead > of the API route. It'll be a lot faster in the long run and be one less > server you need running. > > I started using Grape on an API but ended up going straight Rails in the > end. Grape's great if you're doing simple stuff but getting it to play nice > with things like Devise is pretty hackity-hack. > > -ben > > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Fred Wu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm building a RESTful web service that will be consumed by two clients. >> To cut down the number of techs/frameworks involved, all three apps will be >> built in Rails. I'm thinking that I could use Grape for creating the API >> including versioning, and just use ActiveResource in the clients to consume >> the service. >> >> Are there any better/cleaner solutions? I've checked out HTTParty (and >> API_Smith) but seems like ActiveResource is still a bit easier to work with. >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks! >> Fred >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/Hg2WDp82a9oJ. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
