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So, I’m about to board my plane back home. Railsconf 2006 was great. I met a lot of interesting people. I’m sure you’re going to hear a lot from other faithful bloggers about Railsconf (the amount of macbooks and macbook pro’s was astonishing and there’s nothing like the sound of a hundred keyboards blogging live and direct).

Major hotness to come out Railsconf you ask ? Ha, how about why’s Balloon ?

And ofcourse: DHH announced ( and almost immediately released) ActiveResource. ActiveResource takes CRUD to the next level basically by applying crudness to http. If that doesn’t make immediate sense have a look at this:

Person = ActiveResource::Struct.new do |p|
  p.uri "http://www.example.com/people" 
  p.credentials :name => "dhh", :password => "secret" 
end

Here David sets up a Person as a struct to a uri that aparently needs some credentials as well.

Next you can use that Person as a crud resource:

david = Person.new(:name => "David")

# GET http://www.example.com/people
# David
# => Location: http://www.exapmle.com/people/2

david.find(:name => "David")

# PUT http://www.example.com/people
# David Heinemeier Hansson
# => (200 OK)

david.save

class ActiveResource::Base
  uri "http://www.example.com" 
  credentials :name =>"dhh", :password => "" 
end

While you guys ponder this and ofcourse start to create the most agile webservices ever I’ll try to sleep on the plane. See you on the other side in a bit. I expect at least an Amazon ActiveResource waiting there for me …. (I’m particulary interesting in crudding Amazon wishlists and S3).