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Aug
24
2011

Rails Cookie Sessions and PHP

I recently found myself needing to share session data from my Rails app with a PHP app on the same domain. We use cookie sessions for a number of reasons, and while they work great, the data stored in them is stored in Ruby’s native Marshal format, which is not trivial to reimplement in PHP. [...]

By Chris Heald | Posted in Rails, Ruby | Also tagged | Comments (0)
Sep
27
2008

Powerful, easy, DRY, multi-format REST APIs

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 [...]

By Chris Heald | Posted in Rails, Ruby | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (15)