Hi All

I’ve been doing a reasonable amount of Rails and feel quite comfortable in v 1.16.

Now obviously 1.2 has been released but I’ve not really looked at it yet. Has anyone come across any good sources or even better screen casts that demonstrate the low hanging fruit of v1.2 especially as the topic mentions the REST feature set.

Thanks

A.

Hey Andy,

I would check out Geoffrey Grosenback’s PeepCode series; he has an episode on REST that’s pretty good. I had to watch some parts a few times before I really got it, and it comes with a really great full-color REST cheat sheet you can print out. Best $9 I ever spent. There’s a link from our blog’s sidebar if that’s helpful.

REST has definitely challenged my way of thinking about web applications, and I still struggle with mapping my old architectural thinking into RESTful thinking; but each time I succeed, I feel so much better with the new architecture.

There’s an older (10/3) video podcast from the San Diego ruby group that introduces the REST stuff. I remember it being pretty good, but it was all Edge Rails back then and I couldn’t figure out how to run Edge on Windows. You can find their podcast on iTunes—search for ruby.

Jeff, Chris

Thanks guys I’ll get hold of both of those and have a look. I think it may well generate a stack load of questions so keep your eyes peeled for them on the forum :)

I think it may well generate a stack load of questions

Bring it on :-)