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Agile web development with Rails and Rails 1.2 coming soon
The next edition of Agile web development with Rails is now available in PDF form and is expected in book stores around the same time that Rails 1.2 is released. I’ve been reading the beta PDFs and am looking forward to getting the paper book when it ships. The REST features of Rails 1.2 are a great enhancement that brings Rails one step closer to being a true next generation web framework.
This entry was posted by Kimbro Staken on Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 3:31 pm and is filed under Programming, Ruby. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Hype and more Hype. REST is an architectural style and does not need a “framework” to support it. Rails 1.0 supports REST as well as Rails 1.2 as does PHP.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Umm, yep REST is an architectural style, I know this better than just about anyone. But it’s a style that Rails 1.0 does not encourage or make easy to implement. The changes in Rails 1.2 make a huge difference and not only make it easy to build REST style systems, but it actually prefers that architecture. That’s an advancement I’m happy to see, regardless of whether or not it was technically possible to build REST based systems in Rails 1.0.