# Learning REST, singleton resources and connecting it to the **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 10, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-rest-singleton-resources-and-connecting-it-to-the/106436 "2007-06-10T15:33:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![oandrich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/3da27b/32.png) [@oandrich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/oandrich)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-rest-singleton-resources-and-connecting-it-to-the/106436/1 "2007-06-10T15:33:23Z")
Hi, I am still having here and there problems, when developing a RESTful application. After completing my first personal toy up, I felt like being on the way to understand REST in rails. 🙂 But now I have the need for a dashboard in an application. Sounds like a nice singleton resource with only an index method. But the next question is, how to get the other resources connect or better displayed on the dashboard. On my dashboard I want to display the resources memos, anniversaries, events, topics, etc. grouped on a daily basis. The dashboard will always show the current day and the next three days. Based on that, I have the following questions and would be more then happy, if anybody can share some insights with me. - How can I connect the dashboard to the other resources? Currently I think, that the dashboard controller will fetch the resources and embed it in the web page. - How do I have to extend resources so that I can do something like getting the anniversaries for the 2007-06-15? In my imagination that should result in an URL like /anniversaries/2007/06/15 and I should also put new anniversaries using that way… Hopefully, I have not screwed it up completely, but your are absolutely free to tell me, that I haven’t understood REST. 🙂 Best regards, Oliver – Oliver A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)