Web 2.0 Expo: thoughts from Sean
Guestblogging today are David Yoon and Sean Auriti, two of Ai’s developer team, who attended the conference and shared their observations.
Here are Sean’s thoughts. We’ll post Yoon’s on Monday.
Sean
“REST with Rails” was a good refresher with some good points on keeping the code DRY as well as providing different formats of content using a single url.
Great takeaway: keep it restful, every resource should have its own controller.
I learned some things on the new rails 2.1 caching methods… can change etags, expire time. Saw how simple coding can be by using rest methodology. Very easy to implement, atom feeds, api calls and csv exports.
Presenter David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails and a partner at 37signals.
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