/user/:id would be the html profile view with all the stats etc.
/user/:id.xml|json would be simple json/xml serialization of the row
from the users table.

I wouldn't user profile, cause there is no profile object being saved.

Does this work?

On Jan 28, 8:25 pm, tom hartwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all, I'm working on a project for a friend.  A pretty simple Rails
> app, but I wanted your opinions on a best practice for the following
> example.
>
> A user can submit, tag, and rate postings that are made on the site.
> I would like to have a profile like page that displays to the user all
> this info:  what they've submitted, what they've tagged, rated etc.
> RESTfully, there doesn't seem to be a best practice for this.  Options
> that I'm considering
>
> 1) user/show for :html would display all this data but user/show for
> xml would only send the appropriate? xml
> 2) user/:id/profile would do the heavy lifting, but profile would not
> have the standard actions associated w/ it.  This would scope the data
> effectively at least, but would not be a RESTful controller
> 3) map.profile to a non-RESTful controller to do the heavy lifting
>
> Let me know what you think, thanks in advance,
> Tom
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