[uf-rest] Ruby/Rails helper for Microformats?

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Kevin,

On Aug 31, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Kevin Marks wrote:
> However, lots and lots of Rails apps have the idea of people,  
> places and events, for example, and at the moment there are  
> thousands of developers constructing their own schemas for these.
>
> In the microformat world, we have some nice, tested default schemas  
> for these that come with very tangible external benefits -  
> interoperation with Outlook, iCal and so on.
>
> Could building higher-level abstractions for these common datatypes  
> into Rails be advantageous?

If I have my terminology correct, would this be appropriate for a  
Rails Engine?

http://rails-engines.org/

-- Ernie P.