check out ActiveResource too -- http://railscasts.com/episodes/94-activeresource-basics
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Martin Wawrusch <[email protected]>wrote: > Get yourself a copy of Service Oriented Design with Ruby and rails > > Read through this: > http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm > and read this: > http://blog.steveklabnik.com/2011/07/03/nobody-understands-rest-or-http.html > > Make sure that you support oauth2 if you need security. I had some success > with this gem here: https://github.com/flowtown/rack-oauth2-server > > In general I believe it is better to create a Sinatra rack app as part of > your rails app that exposes the API, much cleaner that way. Use Json as the > default transport. > > As for Soap... avoid it like the plague if you can. > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Roy Situmorang > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I suggest you to read Rails 3 in Action book written by Ryan Bigg and >> Yehuda Katz. >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:37 AM, UA <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, I want to write APIs for my rails 3.1 application but have never >>> written an API ever. I am supposed to write REST and SOAP APIs. Is >>> there a formal book or e-book or screencasts or tutorials which >>> teaches about APIs in Rails and best practices? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
