Hey Jon, For Rails APIs, you should also take a second look at Grape. I may be a bit biased because I work at Intridea, but Grape has come a long way in the last year and has built some pretty good momentum.
peter On Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:30:06 PM UTC-7, mr.jonc wrote: > > I'm looking for some advice. I'm building an iOS application that does the > typical things that iOS applications do: talk to a rest api to get things > like user generated photos and info, and allow users to register and login > and submit photos and other information. Imagine essentially the same api > that instagram would have. > > I know (knew) rails well but it's been about a year since I did my last > rails app. I was actually considering doing this in Node, but there are > some limitations node has around server side intensive processing that I > knew we would hit eventually. > > So, I'm back to Rails. My question is, where do I go to figure out how > people are starting new rails apps these days? What versions of ruby/rails > should I use? It used to be you just did 'rails <name of your project>' and > then built scaffolds and deleted a bunch of files. But I don't need a web > app, and there's probably some Rest API bootstrapper or something out > there... > > What do you think? Anything I should take a look at? > Thanks, > --Jon > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
