Archive for the 'Active Resource (REST)' category
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Currently using serialised columns with Active Resource is broken. To serialize xml, Active Resource uses Active Support’s to_xml method which seems to have a few problems.
>> {:ruby_symbol => :sym}.to_xml
=> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><hash><ruby-symbol:sym/></hash>
What is ruby-symbol:sym I ask you! Rails obviously chokes on this xml and your post/put fails. However, serializing Active Record objects works fine:
>> User.find(:first).to_xml
=> […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
I’ve been playing around with RESTfull procedures, trying to get a link (or something that looks like one) to use the same method and url, regardless of whether JavaScript is enabled or not.
Rails has the link_to_remote, which accepts a ‘method’ option. This is all fine and dandy if you have JavaScript enabled, but, as soon […]
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
These last few weeks I’ve been sailing around the cornish coast and eating lots of cream teas and pasties! I’ll be back on the 25th of August, but until then, I’ve created a plugin for Rails called RestResponses:
Install: ruby script/plugin install http://rest-responses.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rest_responses
RestResponses is a couple of useful little methods to clear up your restfull controllers, […]
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
This looks interesting, and it’s good that the rails conventions for REST are becoming pretty ubiquitous.
http://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com/2007/4/2/jester-javascriptian-rest
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Update: Deleting and updating records now works, take a look at the svn for examples. Auth and proper responses to invalid records still need implementing. Flash doesn’t support status codes, so I might need to use this lib.
This is referring to the post I made earlier.
I’ve started up a google code project and committed the […]
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
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 […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
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 […]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
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 […]
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
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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