From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-01-16T20:39:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Desktop <-> Web

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> On Jan 16, 12:20 am, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I want to interface a desktop application to a backend web
>> > application. What's the easiest way to go about this --what's the best
>> > way to communicate between the two?
>>
>> Are you writing the webapp too?
>
> yes.

I'd suggest returning data from the webapp as json, then, and reading
it as yaml from the ruby end. I did that in a recent project at work
and it was pretty painless. The benefit is if you want to build a rich
browser-based frontend later, client side javascript can use the same
json objects.

martin