Just finished a month long conversion of a Flex project from consuming a PHP backend to RESTified Rails backend, and it was a new experience for me. Needless to say, some of the things in Rails are really great, but there’s a few gotchas that still show up in consuming responses from Rails using REST.
Rails for the most part is simply a framework that exists on top of Ruby, and generally is used as exposure for data (scaffolding is the term for generating a representation of a database table with generalized methods to get and set data against it). I’m simplifying, but that’s what I do.
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