If you’re just getting into Rails or you’re not entirely clear on the whole REST thing, I gave a talk on Thursday, December 13th at the Orlando Ruby Users Group you might want to watch.

A few weeks ago I didn’t fully understand why REST was good, or why I should design my applications in a RESTful way. Hopefully that talk will help spread some understanding on the topic.

View Video Presentation - 33 mins

Here is what I cover:

• The big problem with Web Services
• Does
  REST solve that problem?
• What is REST?
• Why is it only now that big companies are using REST?
• How did Rails become RESTful?
• Live Rails cipher Demo
• Can Java talk to a RESTful Rails server?
• What is ActiveResource?
• What are the benefits of being RESTful?
• How do we take RPC type functions and build them RESTful?
• The future of web services

As always, your comments and commentary is always welcome. I’m always trying to become a better speaker. A PDF of the slides can be downloaded here.

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