The Ruby Reflector

…as ActiveScaffold or Streamlined (or even make_resourceful and other REST controller frameworks)? Is Hobo just another scaffolding framework?

In my opinion Hobo is entirely different from these tools. I've written about this several times over the history of the project because obviously there's a perceived similarity. Scaffolding frameworks are very useful in situations where rough-and-ready is good enough. For example, as a stop-gap while you're working, or in an admin …

• Topics: Hobo, Ruby on Rails, DRYML, ActiveRecord, XHTML
• Rails Inside: Hobo 1.0 - A Rapid Rails Web App Builder - Released

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 25th):

clarkware's iphone-rails-tutorial at master - GitHub - Mike Clark's iphone talking to a rails app through RESTful resources, from railsconf.

Git - Host Git Based Development Networks with Girocco on Debian 5 ( Lenny) - Linode Library - Use the Girocco engine from repo.or.cz to provide easy access to Git repositories.

arsduo's koala at master - GitHub - A lightweight, flexible …

• Topics: Git, Host, Linode, Lenny, Facebook
• Mike Clark : iPhone and Rails Tutorial at RailsConf

REST : will allow definition of REST resources in our controller declarations - e.g. class Posts

4. Create the REST Sessions controller

The Camping Blog example has a simple login system built on top of the Camping session.

For our REST blog, we'll want to support both an interactive web app login (like in the original blog)

as well as a service-based login so that only authenticated applications can call our services.

So we'll expose a new REST resource …

• Topics: XML, XHTML, Camping, JSON, Sessions
• CaelumObject Developers' Blog: REST from scratch
• Mike Clark : iPhone on Rails
• Intridea - Company Blog: REST isn't what you think it is, and that's OK
• Andrzej on Software: REST: Some tips and implementing "Forgot your password?"
• PeepCode Products: iPhone View Controllers Part II
• Ruby Inside: DHH's RailsConf 2010 Keynote Video: A Justification of Rails 3.0

[ CHEF -1336 ] - Chef:: REST should paper over a bug in net/http

[ CHEF -1341 ] - rewrite the handler API

[ CHEF -1342 ] - Updates to mixlib-config interact poorly with method stubs, resulting in spec failures

[ CHEF -1346 ] - Add elapsed time to the list of methods that Chef::Handler delegates to @run_status

[ CHEF -1347 ] - knife recipe list shows ‘.rb' at the end of the recipe names …

• Topics: Chef, Solr, API, Ruby, Knife
• Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: Custom Chef Recipes with Engine Yard Cloud
• BenCurtis.com: Sphinx, Chef and EY Cloud
• SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 067: Cooking up a Cloud (with Chef & EC2)
• Signal vs. Noise: Nuts & Bolts: Configuration management with Chef
• Brightbox Blog: New: Automatically add SSH keys to new Brightboxes
• English - AkitaOnRails.com: Chatting with Adam Jacob

…is called " Fat Model - Skinny Controller ".

The arguments of the later posts will be instead:

RESTful Conventions

Model Optimization

Model Break Up ( Module, Composition, Observer..)

Best Practices on Migration

Use Filter within Contoller

View

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…else was cool? Rich Kilmer gave a nice talk about Authentication in a RESTful World. Again, that's totally relevant to a customer project of mine. One of the best talks out there was Rocket Fueled Cucumbers by Joseph Wilk, but I saw only the last quarter as I selected another talk that I decided to leave ?? too late.

Matthew Deiters also gave a presentation I really enjoyed about "Recommendations in Rails" ?? something I may have to build in one of my …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Railsconf, Hashrocket, Daniel, Ilya
• The Majestic Sea Creature: BohConf: The Best Ruby Conference Ever
• Global Nerdy: Getting Paid to Work for Ballmer is Pretty Nice
• Intridea - Company Blog: Intrideans at RailsConf 2010
• The Life Of A Radar: The Rails 2.3.x Release Process
• Jake Scruggs: Rails Conf 2010 Tutorial Day
• Envy Labs: Railsconf Rails 3 Tutorials

DHH gives an insightful and accessible 38 minute walkthrough of some of Rails 3's differences from Rails 2.0 and explains the motivations behind them. A particular focus is given to improvements made to the routing system (both for REST and non-REST URLs).

I've been a bit lukewarm on Rails lately, opting instead to strongarm Sinatra into doing whatever I want, but DHH's keynote is a compelling overview that encourages me to give it a fair look.

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Peter Cooper
• Rails Inside: Baltimore Welcomes RailsConf With Open Arms
• Intridea - Company Blog: Intrideans at RailsConf 2010
• Rails Rumble: 2010: The Year We Made Rumble History!
• zerosum dirt(nap) - Home: Google Analytics Integration with OAuth
• The RoR n00b Experience: Cucumber and Subdomains Revisited (the Capybara chronicles)
• RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: Business Hours (#10)

Rest is a style derived from other ones, " the REST style draws from many preexisting distributed process paradigms, communication protocols, and software fields ".

Http can be used to implement a REST based system, with several limitations , and some key aspects are implemented through http, but not described within it. One example is semantics and hypermidia: one can make use of http with hundreds of resources that does not provide any semantic value or hyperlinks, …

• Topics: Hypertext Transfer Protocol, CORBA, Roy, Common, RPC
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• blog.webandy.com | Andy Atkinson: WindyCityRails 2009 conference
• Stake Ventures Inc.: OpenTransact a tiny payment standard
• Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 8-10-09
• Heroku: Develop a Voice App with Twilio + Heroku, Win a Netbook
• JarrodSpillers.com: Merb CRUD - ie: how to properly destroy things

…applications and web services (whether you support JSON, XML, with or without REST).

Note: if you're interested in REST support for Camping web services check out RESTstop .

With the camping-oauth plugin you can easily and quickly allow your services or web app to be accessed from other services.

So hopefully this post will have given you a feel for how easy it is to make a Ruby Camping -based web app act as an OAuth provider using the …

• Topics: OAuth, Camping, API, Controllers, Ruby
• The "Tech. Arch.": Implementing Ruby Camping REST Services With RESTstop
• occasionally useful: Banks and OAuth support
• Intridea - Company Blog: Skeet: A Twitter Client for Chrome
• Viget Extend : The Development Lab: Google Analytics API with Ruby and Garb: Making it Even Easier
• Stake Ventures Inc.: Why YAuth is not OAuth
• BenCurtis.com: Testing an OAuth Provider in your Rails App

…into one specification, providing a powerful and flexible method for standardized authorization to RESTful APIs. Attendees will learn:

What the OAuth standard represents.

Who uses OAuth.

How OAuth 2.0 is different.

How to access resources from OAuth 2.0 compatible sites.

How to become an OAuth 2.0 provider.

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Presentation: Persistence Smoothie: Blending SQL and NoSQL in Rails Applications

When: 2:50pm Wednesday, …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, OAuth, Presentation, NoSQL, SQL
• zerosum dirt(nap) - Home: Google Analytics Integration with OAuth
• Stake Ventures Inc.: XAuth a useful service with a poor name
• Floehopper: Ruby wrapper for the Delicious v2 API using the OAuth gem
• Viget Extend : The Development Lab: Google Analytics API with Ruby and Garb: Making it Even Easier
• Bamboo Blog: Brain Dump of Real Time Web(RTW) and WebSocket
• Wynn Netherland: Twitter gem hits 0.9.0