<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BASE href="data:"><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">To be sure, this uses "content-type xml" to switch from web app to web service, but it is still pretty interesting.</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">- Ernie P.</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><A href="http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/27/web-services-rails-style">http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/27/web-services-rails-style</A><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;">The new REST web-service support in Rails 1.1 makes it so easy to add web-services to your app, you might as well do it earlier, rather than later.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P></BODY></HTML>