By Robert J Berger, on March 5th, 2009
The instructions for installing the Apache Thrift on the Wiki missed a few key things in terms of installing on Ubuntu (8.04 in my case) and Macintosh OS X Leopard (10.5.6).
Gitting the latest source
For instance they show you how to get the latest via SVN or a snapshop via wget. But the wget actually gets it [...]
By Robert J Berger, on December 30th, 2008
It seems that most “RESTful” APIs in the wild are well, pretty wild. They don’t meet the strict requirements of the pure CRUD/REST of ActiveResource.
The article in QuarkRuby: Consume non rails-style REST APIs shows how to create a nice ruby wrapper around ActiveResource so you can adapt to any arbitrary REST / http interface on [...]