REST On Rails
November 3rd, 2005 | Published in rails, rest, xml
XML.com have just published an article I wrote for them last month entitled REST On Rails.
It outlines one approach that I’ve been developing for the API in the BBC programme catalogue. One of the things I like a great deal about Rails is its URL routing and dispatch mechanism. Creating mappings from URLs to model instances makes a resource-oriented style feel very natural, which sits very well with REST.
Isn’t this a wonderfully literal interpretation of the article’s title?