Showing 6 videos tagged with rest

Real Thin Restful Controllers with Inherited Resources

José Valim is doing a great work in the soon to the released Rails 3.0. He surprised everybody with his Google Summer of Code project, rewriting the entire Generator code to use Thor and be more agnostic. Not only that he enhanced the ActionController with ways to make it leaner and cleaner.

The Future of Web Services

If you're just getting into Rails or you're not entirely clear on the whole REST thing, I gave a talk on Thursday, December 13th at the Orlando Ruby Users Group you might want to watch. A few weeks ago I didn't fully understand why REST was good, or why I should design my applications in a RESTful way. Hopefully this talk will help spread some understanding on the topic. Here is what I cover: The big problem with Web Services Does REST solve this problem? What is REST? Why is it o... View More

SD Ruby - Episode 009: REST with Rails

In this episode, Kevin Clark shows us some of the new REST features found in Edge Rails. He covers some basic concepts such as HTTP verbs, and also takes a look at using RESTful routes. Here are the slides
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SD Ruby - Episode 010: REST Web Services with Rails

Chris Abad talks a little bit about providing web services to your Rails application using some of the new REST features found in Edge Rails. At the end, he also throws in a bonus tip on using Rick Olson’s authentication plugin http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/... View More
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Railscast - Episode 35: Custom REST Actions

00:08:44 railscasts.com
REST adds many constraints. It restricts your controllers to seven actions. Normally this is okay, but sometimes you need to add your own custom actions. Learn how in this episode.

Railscast - Episode 92: make_resourceful

00:06:08 railscasts.com
The make_resourceful plugin is a great way to DRY up the 7 RESTful actions common in most controllers. Learn how to use it in this episode.
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