On 7 Sep 2008, at 20:55, Konstantin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a good recipe, but I'm trying to develop
> something similar (API for my Rails application) and here are my
> unpretentious results.
> I have made a standalone ruby script and include Rails configuration
> there:
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../config/environment'
> Thus I have access to all models and their connections.
Why is your api not just some extra controllers and actions in your app?
Fred
>
>
> I have mod_rails + Ruby Enterprise installed, but this API script
> works as CGI and doesn't use Ruby Enterprise gems, so you need to
> install the same list of gems for normal Ruby and Ruby Enterprise.
> Another way is to add a line in your Apache config:
> RailsSpawnMethod conservative
> But somebody claims that it's too slow.
> Another tip is to check for the same ENV['RAILS_ENV'] value for both
> Rails and API script, because Passenger overwrites it.
>
> Currently I'm researching different approaches in optimizing speed of
> my application. I'm going to make the API script as a daemon, there
> are some great tools in Ruby for that. But I didn't select any and
> cannot comment them.
>
> A bit messy, sorry :) Maybe this helps.
> Nevertheless it will be great to share good experience.
>
> On 7 сент, 04:40, Charles Ju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm a new developer trying to get into Ruby on Rails. My team is
>> developing an iPhone application that wants to call our Ruby on Rails
>> web-end to store and retrieve data. I've looked on the web and in
>> this
>> forum but the only things I could find were dealing with scaffolding,
>> which a) didn't solve the problem clearly for me and b) we're not
>> using scaffolding.
>>
>> So, I was wondering what would be the best way to create such an API,
>> and how can we do it securely?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Charles
> >
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