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RESTful Rails

Stefan Tilkov,

Peter Williams asks for a more RESTful Rails — I don’t know enough about Rails’ internals to judge whether what he asks for is easily doable, but it would surely be nice to have support for the programming model he suggests:

class BooksController < RestController
uri_base "/books/"

resource "." do
get "application/atom+xml" do
# return XML representation of collection containing all known books.
end

get "text/html" do
# return HTML representation of collection containing all known books.
end

post do
# create new book and add it to the collection
end
end

resource "./:id", :requirements => {:id => /^[[:digit:]]+$/}  do
get  do
# yield html representation of a individual book
end

put do
# update and individual book resource
end
end

resource "./:id/editor", :requirements => {:id => /^[[:digit:]]+$/}  do
get do
# yield a representation of the book editor (a page with a
#   form that puts to "./:id" on submit)
end
end

resource "./creator" do
get do
# yield a representation of the book creator (a page with a
#   form that posts to "." on submit)
end
end
end