2 things I most loved about Ruby on Rails this week

  1. attachment_fu
    From install to an Image Upload with Amazon S3 storage in about 10 minutes. See the attachment_fu tutorial.

  2. RESTful rails
    An XML API for nothing? Why thanks, Rails.

The REST stuff is really fun to play with … I am finding it breaks a little in the real-world with non-trivial use-cases. Start adding auto-completes and other AJAX elements to your page and you start bending the RESTful model a little. I am figuring it’s best to have the core REST architecture and build on it, rather than bend my code to adhere mindlessly to some REST ideal.

I {heart} Rails.

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