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Book:   RESTful Web Services
Subject:   Needs updating to Rails 2.0
Date:   2008-02-11 07:02:47
From:   Anonymous Reader
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

I started this book with much anticipation. It starts out very well with small working examples for accessing non-RESTful websites. As soon as it got into RESTful designs with Ruby, things fell apart. All the examples are for Rails 1.2. The current version is 2.0 and it is significantly different in this area. I have now spent several days trying to educate myself on the difference so I could fix the examples.


In addition there are a couple laborious chapters where the author takes you through the design philosophy of a RESTful design. Although this was good, the chapters could have been made shorter.


Please post updated examples!


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"Every IT generation has its seminal tome that transcends time and connects the dots in a way that no book had before it...RESTful Web Services will be, in my opinion, that book for the 2000s Web services generation."
--Thomas Beck, Beckshome.com: Thomas Beck's Blog