From: "Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)" <godfat@...>
Date: 2011-09-04T20:38:27+09:00
Subject: [ANN] rest-core 0.3.0 released

# rest-core <https://github.com/cardinalblue/rest-core>

by Cardinal Blue <http://cardinalblue.com>

## DESCRIPTION:

A modular Ruby REST client collection/infrastructure

In this era of web services and mashups, we have seen a blooming of
REST
APIs. One might wonder, how do we use these APIs easily and elegantly?
Since REST is very simple compared to SOAP, it is not hard to build a
dedicated client ourselves.

We have developed [rest-core][] with composable middlewares to build a
REST client, based on the effort from [rest-graph][]. In the cases of
common APIs such as Facebook, Github, and Twitter, developers can
simply
use the built-in dedicated clients provided by rest-core, or do it
yourself
for any other REST APIs.

[rest-core]: http://github.com/cardinalblue/rest-core
[rest-graph]: http://github.com/cardinalblue/rest-graph

## INSTALLATION:

    gem install rest-core

Or if you want development version, put this in Gemfile:

    gem 'rest-core', :git => 'git://github.com/cardinalblue/rest-
core.git',
                     :submodules => true

## CHANGES:

### rest-core 0.3.0 -- 2011-09-03

* [facebook] RestGraph is Facebook now.
* [facebook] Facebook::RailsUtil is imported from [rest-graph][]
* [facebook] Use json_decode instead of auto_decode as rest-graph
* [facebook] No longer calls URI.encode on Facebook broken URL
* [twitter] Fixed opts in Twitter#tweet
* [twitter] Introduced Twitter::Error instead of RuntimeError!
* [twitter] By default log nothing
* [rest-core] We no longer explicitly depends on Rack
* [rest-core] Added a shorthand RC to access RestCore
* [rest-core] Eliminated a lot of warnings
* [cache] All clients no longer have default hash cache
* [oauth2_query] Now we always use the term "access_token"
* [config] Now Config#load and Config#load_for_rails take namespace
  e.g. rest-core.yaml:

      development:
        facebook:
          app_id: 123
        twitter:
          consumer_key: abc