Flex was open sourced sometime last week, or at least flex 3 will be. This doesn’t affect my work too much, but it means Eribium will be a more legitimate open source applications. Also I’m looking forward to the custom components that should make it into the general release. Adobe should look at Ext for […]
There’s an interesting article by Ryan Stewart on open sourcing the Flash Player.
Personally I don’t see much call for it, the old adage - if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Adobe are pretty open already, giving access to the source of the Flex SDK for example, and I’m not sure whether the code would […]
Below is my updated responds method. I imagine it’s much more resource intensive than the last version, since this one converts xml to a hash, and then to the required format. However this is necessary until .to_json and .to_yaml methods are written for active record objects and means you can include all the options present […]
I said earlier that I’d do a post about Authentication and REST, so here it is. One of my motivations for doing this is getting a convention set up that Rails developers can follow that doesn’t use http basic (since the security implications of sending a username and password with every request aren’t good). The […]
Update here.
With the release of Active Resource (and Rails support for REST) I foresee a lot of services popping up that conform to the Active Resource way of thinking. However, this isn’t just a Rails thing. If developers, in any language, can be encouraged to make simple REST interfaces to the apps, than life would […]
I’ve been messing around with Active Resource a bit lately (to do with aireo) and I though I’d write a tutorial on it (giving the sparseness of documentation at the moment).
This tutorial expects you to have the restfull conversion methods in application.rb (as explained in the previous post), and a model called “post” with attributes […]
I’d just like to share with you my method of generating the same structure to data for restful responses, in the hope that this helper method will get added to to_json and to_yaml (as it is already for to_xml). Currently, if you convert a model into json or yaml, it isn’t in the same format […]
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