Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-26 Thread Matt Jones
On Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:19:34 UTC-4, Matthias Frick wrote: hmm, i understand your opinion, but nowadays it would be very convenient to have so a docking station layer.. nearly every rails app interacts with external services, so I think it would be a great idea.. more other

Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-25 Thread Matthias Frick
hmm, i understand your opinion, but nowadays it would be very convenient to have so a docking station layer.. nearly every rails app interacts with external services, so I think it would be a great idea.. more other opinions? :) Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2012 02:27:15 UTC+2 schrieb Fabian

Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-24 Thread Matt Jones
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:23:06 UTC-4, Matthias Frick wrote: Rails does not support an interface for external APIs? Or does it offers one? For example you have to interact with the facebook graph api, twitter api, and others, is there a main basic end-to-end point for such api's?

Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-24 Thread Matthias Frick
yes i know these gems. but offers rails itself a layer to hook in such external APIs? like a docking station, where you can register external services and so on.. matthias Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2012 16:05:56 UTC+2 schrieb Matt Jones: On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:23:06 UTC-4, Matthias

Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-24 Thread Fabian Becker
Matthias, the point is, that not everything has to come with Rails. Lets keep things modular and cleanly separated. Don't try to integrate everything into the Rails core when it can just as well be done withing a Gem. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Matthias Frick matth...@frick-web.atwrote:

Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-23 Thread Matthias Frick
Rails does not support an interface for external APIs? Or does it offers one? For example you have to interact with the facebook graph api, twitter api, and others, is there a main basic end-to-end point for such api's? Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2012 00:19:52 UTC+2 schrieb Martin Wawrusch:

Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-22 Thread Matthias Frick
Hmm okay it seems that acitve_resource is quite the same. What do you think about writing an SOAP wrapper for rails and compare the SOAP and REST Api's? Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2012 12:20:28 UTC+2 schrieb cming xu: What's the difference between active_resource and the 'activeservice' you

Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-22 Thread Martin Wawrusch
Why don't you go more in a direction of automated API service documentation? For example, the guys at apiary.io do this by listening in on API calls and generating documentation from that (or at least that's the long term plan). Something like that would be very valuable for a lot of people and it

Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-19 Thread rubyonrailsx
What's the difference between active_resource and the 'activeservice' you mentioned? -- rubyonrailsx Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Matthias Frick wrote: d remove external web services to/ from your rails application. It

Re: [Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-19 Thread Norbert Melzer
Hasn't active resource been dropped in rails 3? Am 19.10.2012 12:19 schrieb rubyonrailsx rubyonrai...@gmail.com: What's the difference between active_resource and the 'activeservice' you mentioned? -- rubyonrailsx Sent with Sparrow http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig On Thursday, October

[Rails] Rails Services Module

2012-10-18 Thread Matthias Frick
Hi! Currently I am doing my Master at the University of Applied Science in Salzburg in Austria and I need a topic for my master thesis. Now I am interested in what do you think about the topic Services. I´d like to programm a module maybe called activeservice or something like that which could be