Sessions at RailsConf 2012 about REST and Web APIs with slides

Monday 23rd April 2012

• Designing Hypermedia APIs

  by Steve Klabnik

  Rails did a lot to bring REST to developers, but its conception leaves the REST devotee feeling a bit empty. "Where's the hypermedia?" she says. "REST isn't RPC," he may cry. "WTF??!?!" you may think. "I have it right there! resources :posts ! What more is there? RPC? Huh?"

  In this talk, Steve will explain how to design your APIs so that they truly embrace the web and HTTP. Just as there's an impedance mismatch between our databases, our ORMs, and our models, there's an equal mismatch between our applications, our APIs, and our clients. Pros and cons of this approach will be discussed, as well as why we aren't building things this way yet.

  • REST
  • Web APIs

  At 10:30am to 11:15am, Monday 23rd April

  In Salon K, Hilton Austin Downtown

  Coverage video slide deck note