From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-05-01T05:18:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails Web services (in general), HTTP GET and JSON and other topics

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:30:05AM +0900, dt wrote:
> I like SOA, I like Ajax, I like Ruby/Rails, but I am in doubt how to
> make some things.

You'll get better answers from the RoR google group. You've come to the Ruby
Language mailing list.

> - Does anybody know a good tutorial about Rails Web services? I have
> searched the Net, but I couldn't find anything else then a simple
> examples (e.g. http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/10), which do
> not answer many of my questions.

Buy a copy of "Agile Web Development with Rails" (as PDF or full paper
book). Chapter 25 is all about web services on Rails.

> - How should I be able to make a service in Rails that uses HTTP GET
> instead of SOAP or XML methods?

Perhaps you want to consider RESTful routing instead of web services.

GET /things       -- returns a list of things (as HTML)
GET /things.xml   -- returns a list of things (as XML)
GET /things/1     -- returns thing number 1
GET /things/1.xml

Brian.