From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T18:02:10+09:00
Subject: Re: NetworkFacade 0.4

On 5/9/07, Florent Solt <florent@solt.biz> wrote:
> NetworkFacade is an alternative to DRb, XML/RPC and other REST api,
> all in one gem !
>
>   http://network-facade.rubyforge.org/
>
> The easiest way to describe it, is through examples.
>
> A simple tcp client/server :
>
>   # -- Server --
>   class Foo
>     def bar; 42; end
>   end
>   server = NetworkFacade::Server.new(:port => 5042)
>   server << Foo.new
>   server.start
>
>   # -- Client --
>   class Foo < NetworkFacade::Client 'nf://localhost:5042'
>   end
>   f = Foo.new
>   puts f.bar
>
> A REST client, for Digg :
>
>   class Digg < NetworkFacade::REST::Client 'http://services.digg.com'
>     mapping :apple_stories, '/stories/topic/apple'
>     mapping :me, '/user/pyros'
>   end
>
>   d = Digg.new
>   puts d.apple_stories(:appkey => 'http://network-facade.rubyforge.org',
>                        :count => 3, :type => :json)
>   puts d.me(:appkey => 'http://network-facade.rubyforge.org')
>
> Many other examples (Unix socket, SSL, Compression, Flickr,
> Remember the milk, Netvibes) are explained here :
>
>   http://network-facade.rubyforge.org/doc

Sweet!

I did something similar:
http://snipplr.com/view/2476/ruby-rest/

But I definitely like your :mapping thing much better.

I'm still not sure if I would like the whole Network Facade just for
REST, but maybe it makes sense for XML/RPC or DRb.

Good job.

-- 
Felipe Contreras