HTTP Best Practices
David Heinemeier Hansson: A huge thanks to the team behind the Atompub specification. This document has been a massive eye opener to best practice use of HTTP in a RESTful fashion. I encourage everyone with an interest in web services to read it. It started an avalanche of ideas in my mind. This respond_to implementation is just one offspring of those ideas.
Nice to hear, but I’d like to point out a cautionary note about that one particular feature.
Don’t get me wrong, HTTP and REST are great stuff. But just like everything else, there are a few pitfalls to watch out for.
My advice: some of these features can wait for Rails 1.2.
Meanwhile, it looks like DabbleDB has added the Atom API to its plans.