Take a look at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/13468 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/13319 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/17014
There's more, but these were the ones I could find quickly. Best, Sidu. http://c42.in http://about.me/ponnappa On 25 May 2011 00:55, Andrew Premdas <aprem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 24 May 2011 19:13, Sidu Ponnappa <ckponna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Andrew, >> >> I'm not sure that's necessarily true - I've read of several RESTful >> APIs using OPTIONS to discover more about a resource at a URI. Rails >> clearly recognizes the OPTIONS HTTP verb because I get >> > > Ah do you have any links about this you would recommend? Always something > new to learn > All best > Andrew > >> >> Started OPTIONS "/" for 127.0.0.1 at Tue May 24 23:38:38 +0530 2011 >> >> when I query a standard Rails index action from an interactive console: >> Ruby 1.9.2, 2011-02-18, x86_64-darwin10.6.0 >> Loading Wrest 1.4.4 >> ruby-1.9.2-p180 :001 > response = 'http://localhost:3000'.to_uri.options >> <- (OPTIONS -2038453369797053398 -4029552566690348382) >> http://localhost:3000/ >> -> (OPTIONS -2038453369797053398 -4029552566690348382) 200 OK (0 bytes >> 0.09s) >> => #<Wrest::Native::Response:0x00000100d89ea0 >> @http_response=#<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>> >> ruby-1.9.2-p180 :002 > response.body >> => nil >> >> Interestingly, that same uri does actually have a body when invoked with a >> get. >> >> Best, >> Sidu. >> http://c42.in >> http://about.me/ponnappa >> >> >> On 24 May 2011 23:07, Andrew Premdas <aprem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 24 May 2011 04:26, satyamag <satya...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> I am new to rails and rspec. I am trying to write specs for a web >> >> service >> >> written in rails and found that firefox 3.6 makes an OPTIONS call to >> >> the >> >> server before making a POST. >> >> >> >> I want to write a spec for this behavior but am unable to find any >> >> resource >> >> on how to write a spec for an OPTIONS call. Could someone please help? >> >> I >> >> would really appreciate it. >> >> >> >> I am working on rails 3 with ruby 1.9.2 and rspec 2.5.2 >> >> >> >> thank you >> > >> > Do you really need to do this? From my cursory look of the w3 spec >> > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html, the options >> > command >> > is all about establishing comms with your server - not your service. So >> > there is nothing to specify in your service is there! Your not writing >> > specs for apache, nginx or whatever you have serving your application. >> > HTH, and if I'm wrong please let me know >> > All best >> > Andrew >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> View this message in context: >> >> >> >> http://old.nabble.com/Writing-a-spec-for-HTTP-OPTIONS-verb-tp31687138p31687138.html >> >> Sent from the rspec-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> rspec-users mailing list >> >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > ------------------------ >> > Andrew Premdas >> > blog.andrew.premdas.org >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > rspec-users mailing list >> > rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > -- > ------------------------ > Andrew Premdas > blog.andrew.premdas.org > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
