[uf-rest] RESTified Rails Controller (take 2)

[Peter E Williams]

Dan,

That looks nice.  I really like the use of the handler arguments to 
allow common behaviors to be handled declaratively.

The last version I RestController I saw inherited directly from 
ActionController::Base which meant that you could not really just create 
a new controller and have it inherit from RestController because you 
lost the behaviors on ApplicationContoller (and ApplicationHelper in the 
view).  You could solve this problem by making ApplicationController 
inherit from RestController but it made the restful controllers a bit 
less obvious to new comers. 

Do you think it would be possible to implement RestController as an 
extension to ActionController::Base for the etag stuff (as that is 
really applicable any request) and as a mixin for the http-method based 
routing and actions?  That way when you looked a restful controller you 
would notice right way that it was different because there would be a 
"include RestActions", or whatever, at the top of the controller.

Have you had any epiphanies about how to handle multiple 
representations/views of the same resource? 

How are you handling routing?  Have you just modified the routes in the 
restifarian plugin to match your action names or have you come up with 
something different?

Peter