Recursive requests in Rails

28Nov07

I’ve been messing with Rails when trying to set up a server with a web service and a controller that consumes that web service. Actually, that’s not easy at all, as the controller times out when calling the web service. It should have worked if the web service was remote.
So the thing is that requests [...]

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Tags: recursion, ruby on rails

REST and semantic web

27Nov07

I’ve been searching for initiatives to add semantics to RESTful web services. (Big) Web services are too complex and thus haven’t been widely adopted by average developers, as it’s arguable that it’s worth its complexity. RESTful web services seem a simple and smart alternative, and I wonder if it can be a boost for semantics. [...]

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Tags: rest, semantics

Rails 2.0 security

26Nov07

I’ve been taking a glance at Rails 2.0 new session storage. Hongli points out in his blog that cookies are not stored anymore as files in Rails 2.0. This makes the design more RESTful, as long as no state is kept in the server side.
Instead, all the session data is supplied by the client in [...]

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Tags: cookies, ruby on rails, Security

Kick off!

26Nov07

This is my first post, the one that nobody might read… However, I’ll take the chance to welcome everybody.
Mainly, I’ll focus on web 2.0 apps and things, especially Ruby on Rails based. If you’re a web developer and still don’t know what Ruby on Rails is, take a look at www.rubyonrails.org, as it [...]

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Tags: ruby on rails, welcome