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Here’s a nice article on selling expensive, niche software.

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matt on April 20th, 2008

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I was recently helping a friend out with his Rails project and we were trying to figure out the best way to handle queries in a RESTful Rails app, i.e. returning a subset of items meeting certain conditions. After a bit of poking around, here’s what looks like the most promising convention [...]

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matt on January 16th, 2008

Today I decided to get my head around REST and, more specifically, whether and how I should use it in my Rails development projects.
REST (or REpresentational State Transfer - see Wikipedia), is all about resources. As I understand it, in a perfectly RESTful application, every object is resource with a unique identifier (in this case, [...]

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