Rails’ baked-in REST support is great. Build your app right, and you can expose a programmatic interface to your users for free. That said, many times providing views in non-HTML formats tends to be bulky and unwieldy. You end up with either very brittle representations of your data, or extremely bulky respond_to blocks in your [...]
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I'm Chris Heald. I'm a software developer and serial tinkerer from Phoenix, Arizona. I work as Chief Architect for Mashable, where I get to build nifty things. I work primarily in Ruby, Javascript, and PHP, and am always on the lookout for new and interesting things to tinker with. Connect with me on Google+ or Twitter.
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