From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2010-09-10T14:55:50+09:00
Subject: Where to start for developing a service REST API?

Hi,

I'm toying with the idea of a private project which exposes a HTTP REST
API. It will not start out with any HTML/UI stuff at first and will be
strictly json (because a desktop client already exists), although a HTML
UI /may/ be developer later to ease things.

Now I don't know if it's a good idea to start off with Rails for such a
thing (honestly, I really want to keep things small) but if not Rails,
I'm actually lost as in that case what alternatives are generally available.

In the end I indent it to run it over my Apache which already provides
my HTTPS and authentication infrastructure; but I don't mind if it
doesn't run within Apache and I just need to proxy the request to some
custom Ruby server.

Some starting points would be very helpful.

thanks,
- Markus