Archive for the ‘rest’ Category

Advanced RESTful Rails, done

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

So I've been absent for a while - in no small part because I've been prepping for my Railsconf talk on Advanced RESTful Rails, which I gave yesterday. I've gone ahead and uploaded the slides here for interested parties, so feel free to take a look and leave comments or ...

The book has arrived!

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

I spent Thursday and Friday in DC at my company's annual anniversary event - we had loads of fun, as you might be able to tell from these pics. After getting home around 2am on Saturday morning, I crashed... and when I woke up on Saturday, I discovered that the ...

Preview talk done!

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Been a little quiet around here lately; that's in large part due to Morgan, but it's also been a busy few weeks Rails-wise. Besides finishing up the book, I've also been wrapping up the first draft of my Railsconf talk on REST - which I gave last night at Raleigh.rb. ...

Default routing considered harmful

Monday, February 25th, 2008

(I always wanted to write one of those "considered harmful" posts) In case you haven't realized it yet, if you're writing a RESTful application in Rails 2, you should probably delete the default route at the bottom of your routes file: map.connect ':controller/:action/:id' The reason is that this provides a back-door into any ...