Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects is a guide to joining the burgeoning world of open web applications. It argues that opening up your application can provide significant benefits and involves you in the entire processfrom setting up your application, to creating clients for it, to handling success and all its attendant problems. This book is the essential resource for anyone who wants to make their web application a full participant in the new Internet This book is intended for intermediatetoadvanced Rails developerspeople who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical rollyourown blog In particular, its targeted at Rails developers who want to be good Web 2.0 citizenssharing the functionality of their app with other sites to the betterment of everyone Application projects include iPhone, Facebook, and REST for the enterprise What youll learn Develop REST web services in Rails 2 Framework Build from the serverside perspective and integrate with PHP Build from the client side using a JavaScript widget Develop RESTful application on Rails for the Apple iPhone Create a Facebook application using REST on Rails Examine REST on Rails for the Enterprise Who this book is for This book is intended for intermediatetoadvanced Rails developerspeople who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical rollyourown blog.