Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects (Expert's Voice in Web Development) [Paperback]

Ben Scofield (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590599942 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599945 | Publication Date: April 29, 2008 | Edition: 1

Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects by Ben Scofield is a practical projects oriented tour of extending the world’s most popular open source Web framework into Web Services and Enterprise applications using REST. A great definition of the term “REST” can be found at http://tomayko.com/articles/2004/12/12/rest-to-my-wife.

This will be the first and likely only book on REST on Rails.

It includes high profile practical case study projects on developing an application for the iPhone as well as Facebook and more.

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About the Author

Ben Scofield develops web applications for the DC-area based Viget Labs. He has been designing and building for the web since 1998, and has been happily obsessed with Ruby and Rails for several years. He’s worked on a variety of sites, and has spoken at Railsconf and Rubyconf. He lives in Durham, NC with his wife, dog, and (soon) child.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (April 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599942
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599945
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,137,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars REST: Tutorial Style, July 29, 2008

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J. Pease (Odessa, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)

In a nutshell this book can be broken into 3 parts:

1) About REST - 19 pages
2) Rails support for REST - 18 pages
3) Tutorials - All the other pages

I found the first 37 pages or so pretty interesting. The tutorials I'm sure have a lot of good examples, but personally I find that not the most fascinating format to read. If I have to scroll more than a few pages in a tutorial in a blog I might lose interest. That's just me.

The tutorials provide examples of how to include the ideas of REST using JavaScript, JSON, PHP, iPhone, Facebook, etc. Glance over the sections at a bookstore, if it looks like something pertinent to a project you are working on ... then buy it.

So overall, it does an OK job of presenting the material in the chosen format (tutorials). It's just not my personal favorite as far as written formats go.