Whether you use Sinatra or Rails, you may also find Rabl useful:
https://github.com/nesquena/rabl

David Allison
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Nulu, Inc.
www.nulu.com


On Mar 16, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Ben Wanicur <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would consider Sinatra for building an API.  http://www.sinatrarb.com/ 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan Christensen <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> I'm looking for some advice. I'm building an iOS application that does the 
> typical things that iOS applications do: talk to a rest api to get things 
> like user generated photos and info, and allow users to register and login 
> and submit photos and other information. Imagine essentially the same api 
> that instagram would have.
> 
> I know (knew) rails well but it's been about a year since I did my last rails 
> app. I was actually considering doing this in Node, but there are some 
> limitations node has around server side intensive processing that I knew we 
> would hit eventually.
> 
> So, I'm back to Rails. My question is, where do I go to figure out how people 
> are starting new rails apps these days? What versions of ruby/rails should I 
> use? It used to be you just did 'rails <name of your project>' and then built 
> scaffolds and deleted a bunch of files. But I don't need a web app, and 
> there's probably some Rest API bootstrapper or something out there...
> 
> What do you think? Anything I should take a look at?
> Thanks,
> --Jon
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