<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Sixtus,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">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>?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am (based on limited information) a big fan of GData. I liked the Atom Publishing Protocol, but was frustrated that it didn't have any query semantics.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The short answer is that we want to do with HTML/hAtom what they are doing with Atom. And we're not too proud to borrow all their good ideas. :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://microformats.org/wiki/rest#Atom-based_alternatives">http://microformats.org/wiki/rest#Atom-based_alternatives</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Ernie P.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 21, 2006, at 5:13 PM, <A href="mailto:sixtus@gmail.com">sixtus@gmail.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hello Ernie,<BR><BR><BR>very nice, thanks for the effort. As it is way past my bedtime, just a quick question:<BR><BR>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> ?<BR><BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Hagen<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 4/22/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Dr. Ernie Prabhakar</B> <<A href="mailto:drernie@opendarwin.org">drernie@opendarwin.org</A>> wrote: </SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all,<BR><BR>Since there's been a lot of interest and activity lately, I setup a<BR> brief conference call between the various people working on<BR>expressing REST in Ruby on Rails:<BR>* David Hansson<BR>* Dan Kubb<BR>* Charlie Savage<BR>* Peter Williams<BR>and hosted by myself and Rohit Khare (the godfather of <BR><A href="http://microformats.org">microformats.org</A>).<BR><BR>My notes from that meeting have been fed into the [rest/rails] wiki<BR>page:<BR><BR><A href="http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/rails#Plug-ins">http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/rails#Plug-ins </A><BR><BR>The main accomplishments of the call were:<BR><BR>a) Defining a coherent scheme for generating RESTful URLs from within<BR>Rails<BR><BR>b) Understanding the different goals of the various plug-ins now in<BR>existence <BR><BR>While I can't say that consensus (or my notes) were perfect,<BR>hopefully it helps provide a starting point for future discussion.<BR>I hope the others will jump in and correct me where needed.<BR><BR>While we probably can't converge on a single controller architecture <BR>due to different conceptual goals (Rails-first vs. REST-first), the<BR>hope is that both (all?) plug-ins would use the same URL conventions<BR>and share common code for the other items, e.g.:<BR>* Conditional GET<BR>* Status Codes <BR>* Content Negotiation<BR>* Caching and Warning Headers<BR>* Authentication and OPTIONS<BR><BR>The ultimate dream is the same -- making Rails a testbed for best-<BR>practice RESTful application design, while will both be useful in <BR>itself and an inspiration for others in this space.<BR><BR>Thanks for everyone who participated, and I hope everyone feels free<BR>to add their own ideas and suggestions.<BR><BR>RESTfully yours,<BR>-- Ernie Prabhakar<BR> uf-REST Moderator<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>microformats-rest mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:microformats-rest@microformats.org">microformats-rest@microformats.org</A><BR><A href="http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-rest"> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-rest</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear="all"><BR>-- <BR>Dissertations are a successful walk through a minefield -- summarizing them is not. - Roy Fielding<DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">microformats-rest mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:microformats-rest@microformats.org">microformats-rest@microformats.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-rest">http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-rest</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>