Web Services on Rails

Use the Ruby on Rails stack to create robust web services.

Using the Action WebService pack that ships with Rails, you can rapidly create robust web services with the same productivity you see when developing classic web applications with Rails. The integration of ActiveRecord as an ORM framework, plus Builders for rapidly generating XML documents, provides for rapid deployment of standard services. Add on Ruby's powerful metaprogramming strategies, and you can quickly and easily build a library of filters and interceptors to provide services like encryption, digital signatures, routing, etc. that enable your business rules.

About Justin Gehtland

Justin is the co-founder of Relevance, a consulting/training/research organization located in the Research Triangle of North Carolina. Justin has been developing applications with static and dynamic languages since 1992. He has written code with Java, .NET, C#, Visual Basic, Perl, Python and Ruby. He loves to talk, especially in front of people, but all by himself in the corner if he must. Justin is currently focused on: Rails (because its the law), Spring (because Java isn't going anywhere) and security (because paranoia is your friend).

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