Web Hooks in Ruby on Rails

October 12, 2009

A recent issue of Rails Magazine published an article by John Nunemaker on web hooks in rails, along with a concise example for triggering hooks on models using an observer class. I’ve followed this lead, but found a few basic changes necessary to make the solution more tractable for use in a typical Rails API setup.

Web Service API Design By Example

October 7, 2009

Developing for the web means, to a greater or lesser degree, being a productive citizen in a kingdom of online data exchange; and whether by formal design or organic, ad hoc growth, this means building an API.