Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects

Product Description

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–to–advanced 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.

What you’ll learn

* Develop REST web services in Rails 2 Framework.
* Build from the server–side perspective and integrate with PHP.
* Build from the client side using a JavaScript widget.
* Develop RESTful application on Rails for the Apple iPhone.
* Create a Facebook application using REST on Rails.
* Examine REST on Rails for the Enterprise.

Who is this book for?

This book is intended for intermediate–to–advanced Rails developers—people who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical roll–your–own blog.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #363760 in Books
* Published on: 2008-04-28
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 304 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Ben Scofield develops web applications for the DC area–based Viget Labs. 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 (soon) child. Customer Reviews

REST: Tutorial Style3
In a nutshell this book can be broken into 3 parts:

1) About REST - 19 pages
2) Rails support for REST - 18 pages
3) Tutorials - All the other pages

I found the first 37 pages or so pretty interesting. The tutorials I'm sure have a lot of good examples, but personally I find that not the most fascinating format to read. If I have to scroll more than a few pages in a tutorial in a blog I might lose interest. That's just me.

The tutorials provide examples of how to include the ideas of REST using JavaScript, JSON, PHP, iPhone, Facebook, etc. Glance over the sections at a bookstore, if it looks like something pertinent to a project you are working on ... then buy it.

So overall, it does an OK job of presenting the material in the chosen format (tutorials). It's just not my personal favorite as far as written formats go.