Web Services on Rails

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 Stuart Halloway

Stuart Halloway is a founder and President of Cognitect, Inc. (www.cognitect.com). He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.

Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf, QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.

Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles. Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.

Learn more about Stu's presentations on his wiki.

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