I am attempting to use form_for to implement a search form that works with a table-less Search model I created. The search form keeps triggering the 'index' action. I assume I should use 'new' to create the form and 'create' the process the search query. Looking at the log, my POST is getting changed into a GET. Here's my code: /searche...
Hi all, Currently I am working on small application in asp.net mvc. It is a some kind of localization tool. Our clients login on our application and they can translate terms that shows up in our applications that they use. It is happens like this: login to localization site find and translate certain terms for example title for button...
Hello, I'm working on an Adobe AIR project that use the Ruby on Rails as RESTful web service as the back end. I have found a lot of examples that show how can I send the data to operated by Rails. but I stuck at date object, which will be very useful if I can send Actionscript's date object to Rails via XML or whatever and Rails can und...
I've got a REST framework that when plopped into any directory should Just Work(TM), and it seems to work fine when I've got projects in subdirectories, but not if it's in root. So, given a few example directories; / /project1 /bingo/project2 /hoopla/doopla/minor/project3 All of these works fine, except I'm getting "funnies"* when the...
I was wondering what peoples opinions are of a RESTful 'PUT' operation that returns nothing(null) in the response body? ...
Let's say I have a method that returns a list of customers and as input has a list of states and list of sizes, something like return customers where state in (NY, CA, TX) and size in (Small, Medium) What would the best RESTFul URL that I should use? The problem that it is a query and does not point to a specific 'resource'. Here are ...
So, I'm looking at building a brand new REST WS API for my application. I've done my homework on the technical side and feel fairly confident about setting up paths/to/resources.andTheirRepresentations. However, does any one have any suggestions on good resources for processes to develop what those paths should be? What methods should be...
Hi can anyone past some code how to do a restful web service get and post method. This would be server side so I would be able to invoke the two services from a client. Thanks! ...
I have a rails app that uses two of the same models as another rails app I have. What's the best way to keep data synced between two models? MySQL replication probably won't be possible due to hosting restrictions and since stuff that references the replicated data is dependent => :destroy meaning mysql replication will cause stuff tha...
Hi, I am finding load testing tool that can send PUT/DELETE requests. Neither ApacheBench nor JMeter supports these methods. After several hours' googling, I found www.soapui.org that looks good. Do you have any other recommendation? Command line tool like ApacheBench will be better for me. Thanks ...
Hi all, I'm curious for those of you who are building iPhone apps based on REST/SOAP/XML-RPC or simply pulling down a dynamic XML feed, what does it mean exactly to you when a user says 'refresh' the feed? The straight forward way is to populate some collection, say an NSMutableArray, with whatever you bring down from the feed. If a wi...
Should I use PyXML or what's in the standard library? ...
Hello, I'm learning erlang and I'm very fascinated by the mnesia db. I want to build some real world application in C# / F# using erlang as backend. I'm searching for a good solution to communicate with erlang nodes from the outside world. What I found so far: (A) OTP.net, an opensource .net library implementing the 'native' erlang c...
By 'view' here I mean different combinations of properties of the model, not the view of the traditional MVC. For example, I have the following model: class Game < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :players belongs_to :status has_one :deck has_many :turns has_one :current_turn, :class_name => 'Turn', :conditions => ['turn_num = ?', ...
In a controller in my Rails app, I can do this: before_filter :login_required, :except => :index But I would like to apply the filter not only based on the action name but on the format of the request. In other words, I would like to do something like this: before_filter :login_required, :except => {:action => :index, :format => :js}...
We have a website built in PHP and are trying to enable it to talk to couple of services that are going to be written in WCF and follow REST Style architecture for web services. Anybody have any best practices? issues? ...
First off, I am a newbie when it comes to JMS & ActiveMQ. I have been looking into a messaging solution to serve as middleware for a message producer that will insert XML messages into a queue via HTTP POST. The producer is an existing system written in C++ that cannot be modified (so Java and the C++ API are out). Using the "demo" ex...
I feel like an idiot asking this. In fact, after typing the title, StackOverflow barks at me, "That's not a very good title. Can you add some more unique words to it?" No I can't, SO; sorry. Here we go: We have this software that has a webservices component. Now, the administrator of this system has come to me, wanting to import data i...
I may be way off base, but I've been trying all afternoon to run the curl post command in this recess PHP framework tutorial. What I don't understand is how is PHP supposed to interpret my POST, it always comes up as an empty array. curl -i -X POST -d '{"screencast":{"subject":"tools"}}' \ http://localhost:3570/index.php/traini...
I am looking for any insight/direction on designing a simple web service. I would love to hear some thoughts on how to quickly get started, and what pitfalls to avoid. To simplify, here are the basics I'm looking to accomplish: Service should provide a simple database query and multi-value response. Service should provide a simple mult...