Rails – speaking REST as a mock webservice

Mojo — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:03:44 +0000

Finally understood the distinctions between webservices and rest. Now I don’t mean the theory aspects Roy Fieldings paper adequately explains the concepts and frankly helps a great deal to try to introduce technology which is along the lines of ‘less is more’.

What I mean is being able to create a service mock up a test script and talk to the server using XML.

Here is an example of creating a new Person:
require 'net/http'

s = <<-XML


Sarah

Jhummun
XML
Net::HTTP.start('localhost', 3000) do |http|

response = http.post('/people.xml', "#{s}", 'Content-Type' => 'text/xml')
#Do something with the response.

puts "Code: #{response.code}" puts "Message: #{response.message}" puts "Body:\n #{response.body}" end

and here is an example of retrieving a list of people:
require 'net/http'

Net::HTTP.start('localhost', 3000) do |http| response = http.get('/people/', 'Accept' => 'text/xml')


#Do something with the response.

puts "Code: #{response.code}" puts "Message: #{response.message}" puts "Body:\n #{response.body}" end

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