carmen wrote: > > i still don't know exactly what REST is (maybe there is no exact definition),
I suppose the definitive source is one of the few PhD dissertations that are worth something (mine wasn't): http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm > camping makes playing with all this easy That was my hypothesis, nice to have confirmation... > module Aero::Controllers > class Foil < R '/foil/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)' > def get geo, angle, mach > # do some math here and return results > end > end > > [..] > > you would do something like GET /foil/1/90.000/3 in this case, > > or perhaps query string is more your type: > > GET /foil?mach=3&angle=37.000 Simple enough, thanks. > [..] > > this gives you an overview of 1 old fashioned (querystring) 1 > camping-fashioned > (custom URIs defined via regex) and 1 neo-classical (JSON RPC via post) means > to REST while camping. [..] You lost me with most of this, as I am not a hard-core web programmer, but it is comforting to see the similarities in the different tacks. Thanks again, -- Bil Kleb http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
