Web Services on Rails

Additional Reading and Help

If you're looking for more help with Ruby on Rails, I recommend the following web sites, all of which were at least partially used in compiling information for this book:

http://www.ruby-forum.com

A great source to get quick answers from real programmers

http://www.rubyonrails.org

The official Rails site, full of useful HOWTOs

http://www.ruby-lang.org

The official Ruby site; useful for keeping up-to-date on Ruby events

http://www.rubycentral.com/ref

Online reference documents for Ruby

http://www.rorbe.com

The companion site to this document, with additional examples and updates

There are also many good Ruby and Ruby on Rails books in print today that cover the basics of the Ruby syntax and Rails framework, both essential to building quality web services with Ruby on Rails. Additionally, there are a number of good books covering web service concepts and technologies, including REST, XML RPC, and SOAP. All of them are worth at least browsing through if you're just getting started with web services.

The code examples from this book are also available online at http://www.rorbe.com. I will also put additional examples, updates, and any other information that comes about from the readers of this book on http://www.rorbe.com.

If you build a publicly available web service with Ruby on Rails or want to share your Rails web service client code, with others please submit the details to http://www.rorbe.com. Additionally, if you have questions or comments about anything you've ...