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REST for Internet Arguments – RESTful Interface

November 5, 2015 by Vincent Colavin Leave a Comment

This is an adaptation of a lightning talk I gave at PDX Ruby on November 3rd, 2015.

A while back, I was looking at the documentation for Mandrill’s API. I pulled the following quote from https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/ on 11/05/2015:

The Mandrill API is a mostly RESTful API. Known caveats:

All API calls should be made with HTTP POST.

You can consider any non-200 HTTP response code an error – the returned data will contain more detailed information

All methods are accessed via: https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0/SOME-METHOD.OUTPUT_FORMAT

“THAT’S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO REST”, I screamed from the heavens (Twitter). “I KNOW WHAT A RESTFUL INTERFACE IS AND THAT’S NOT IT. I’M A PROFESSIONAL. GOSH. REST USES STATUS CODES AND HTTP VERBS MORE INTELLIGENTLY THAN THAT.”

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Ruby Debugging: Life after Puts

December 17, 2013 by Lindsay LaShell Leave a Comment

Have you outgrown basic debugging in Ruby? Rob Kaufman shows how to step up your game and use the Ruby debugger in a variety of practical ways.

This talk was originally delivered at SD Ruby.

Ruby Debugging: Life After Puts

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Driven Merb: A User Story

December 17, 2013 by Lindsay LaShell Leave a Comment

Merb makes coding fast, solid apps easier, but what about the clients? Aren’t they still the hard part? This talk will show you how to take what your client tells you and turn it into acceptance testing. We’re going to (mostly) skip the why and go straight to the how.

Rob Kaufman delivered this talk at MerbCamp San Diego in 2008.

Driven Merb: A User Storty

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Slideshow: Tanning Bed

December 2, 2013 by Lindsay LaShell Leave a Comment

Rob Kaufman demonstrates Tanning Bed, his new Solr search mixin for any Ruby class. Tanning Bed makes fewer assumptions about how you want to deal with the Solr search engine, while still providing easy Ruby-like interfaces.

Developer Flow: Making it Better

August 12, 2013 by Lindsay LaShell Leave a Comment

Originally delivered at SD Ruby, in this talk Rob Kaufman explores tools and options for improving your development process: common issues with managing tasks, starting work, committing branches, and getting completed tasks verified and deployed to production. It’s all about automating the little steps because details are too easy to forget.

“THAT’S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO REST”, I screamed from the heavens (Twitter). “I KNOW WHAT A RESTFUL INTERFACE IS AND THAT’S NOT IT. I’M A PROFESSIONAL. GOSH. REST USES STATUS CODES AND HTTP VERBS MORE INTELLIGENTLY THAN THAT.”

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