Embracing REST with mind, body and soul (Rails and the new respond_with)

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2009/08/embracing-rest-with-mind-body-and-soul/

by evdawg • 17 years ago

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jamesbritt2• 17 years ago

Do folks here buy into the REST == CRUD mapping the way it's basked into Rails?

evdawg• 17 years ago

I don't know... do you want to elaborate a little more on that?

jamesbritt2• 17 years ago

For example, the pairing of PUT with 'update' , with only POST allowed to create new resource, versus allowing clients to PUT a new resource (effectively creating them) when given the proper URL.

See, for example, http://www.rgoarchitects.com/nblog/2009/06/23/CRUDIsBadForRE...

and in particular the idea that REST is about documents, not databases. "The data model is _not_ the resource model," as one comment there puts it.

Also, CRUD makes no allowance for HEAD and OPTIONS, as if they don't even exist.

I see too, in digging around for links, that this has been discussed on HN before (big surprise, no?): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=629843

Embracing REST with mind, body and soul (Rails and the new respond_with)

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