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Since David Heinemeier Hansson’s keynote speech at RailsConf 2006 and the release of Rails 1.2 in early 2007, Representational State Transfer, better known as REST, has taken the Rails world by storm. If you’re new to REST, this short cut will help you decide which parts of the REST paradigm you want to introduce to your application. If you’re a developer with more RESTful experience, this short cut will introduce you to some refactorings that will give your application a cleaner, leaner code base, while also serving as a reference to much of the functionality REST has brought to Rails.
Section 1: What This Short Cut Covers 3
Section 2: What Is REST? 6
Section 3: Refactorings 10
Section 4: RESTful Controllers 31
Section 5: RESTful Routes 48
Section 6: RESTful Views 54
Section 7: RESTful Tests 59
Section 8: RESTful Authentication 61
Section 9: Consuming RESTful APIs 63
Resources 72
About the Author 73
1.1 Target Audience 5
1.2 Rails 5
2.1 REST Explained 7
2.2 REST and Rails 7
2.3 REST and CRUD 8
2.4 Verbs and Nouns 9
3.1 respond_to 10
3.2 CRUD 16
3.3 Resource 27
4.1 A RESTful Controller 31
4.2 Automating RESTful Controller Generation 34
4.3 respond_to 40
4.4 How Content Type Negotiation Works 46
5.1 Pretty URLs 52
5.2 Browsers and the HTTP Methods 53
6.1 SimplyHelpful
9.1 ActiveResource 64
9.2 cURL 69