Hello Ernie, very nice, thanks for the effort. As it is way past my bedtime, just a quick question: Can you position your efforts regarding <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html">http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html </a> ? Cheers, Hagen <div>On 4/22/06, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <<a href="mailto:drernie@opendarwin.org">drernie@opendarwin.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all, Since there's been a lot of interest and activity lately, I setup a brief conference call between the various people working on expressing REST in Ruby on Rails: * David Hansson * Dan Kubb * Charlie Savage * Peter Williams and hosted by myself and Rohit Khare (the godfather of <a href="http://microformats.org">microformats.org</a>). My notes from that meeting have been fed into the [rest/rails] wiki page: <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/rails#Plug-ins">http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/rails#Plug-ins </a> The main accomplishments of the call were: a) Defining a coherent scheme for generating RESTful URLs from within Rails b) Understanding the different goals of the various plug-ins now in existence While I can't say that consensus (or my notes) were perfect, hopefully it helps provide a starting point for future discussion. I hope the others will jump in and correct me where needed. While we probably can't converge on a single controller architecture due to different conceptual goals (Rails-first vs. REST-first), the hope is that both (all?) plug-ins would use the same URL conventions and share common code for the other items, e.g.: * Conditional GET * Status Codes * Content Negotiation * Caching and Warning Headers * Authentication and OPTIONS The ultimate dream is the same -- making Rails a testbed for best- practice RESTful application design, while will both be useful in itself and an inspiration for others in this space. Thanks for everyone who participated, and I hope everyone feels free to add their own ideas and suggestions. RESTfully yours, -- Ernie Prabhakar uf-REST Moderator _______________________________________________ microformats-rest mailing list <a href="mailto:microformats-rest@microformats.org">microformats-rest@microformats.org</a> <a href="http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-rest"> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-rest</a> </blockquote></div> -- Dissertations are a successful walk through a minefield -- summarizing them is not. - Roy Fielding