Lightweight Ruby Web Services
The recent Oreilly book Enterprise Rails has a few chapters on SOA and the entire time I was reading those chapters I kept thinking to myself that Rails is sorta overkill for most services implementations, unless you plan on bundling APIs and applications together. I was going to write something about translating the services discussed in that book to Merb micro apps or something similar, but a few recent posts beat me to the punch. Enjoy:
Throw in a little Happy Mapper and you sort of have the equivalent of Restlet/Jersey and Castor/Jibx in the Java world. Enterprise indeed.
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