Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects

Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects by Ben Scofield is a practical projects oriented tour of extending the world's most popular open source Web framework into Web Services and Enterprise applications using REST. A great definition of the term "REST" can be found at http://tomayko.com/articles/2004/12/12/rest-to-my-wife.

First book on REST on Rails Includes high profile projects involving the popular Apple iPhone, Facebook and more Ruby on Rails is a very hot tech market still, and continues its rapid growth in terms of use and adoption

Autorentext
Ben Scofield develops web applications for Viget Labs, based in the D.C. area. He has been designing and building for the Web since 1998, and has been happily obsessed with Ruby and Rails for several years. He's worked on a variety of sites, and has spoken at RailsConf and RubyConf. He lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife, dog, and child.

Klappentext

Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects is a guide to joining the burgeoning world of open web applications. It argues that opening up your application can provide significant benefits and involves you in the entire process from setting up your application, to creating clients for it, to handling success and all its attendant problems. This book is the essential resource for anyone who wants to make their web application a full participant in the new Internet This book is intended for intermediate töadvanced Rails developers people who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical roll your own blog In particular, it's targeted at Rails developers who want to be good Web 2.0 citizens sharing the functionality of their app with other sites to the betterment of everyone Application projects include iPhone, Facebook, and REST for the enterprise

Inhalt

Why REST?.- REST in Rails.- Being a Server.- Your First Client: A Javascript Widget.- See You on the Server-Side: PHP.- An Apple a Day: the iPhone.- A Little Help from My Friends: Facebook.- Dealing with Success.- REST in the Enterprise.