Re: Concerns about starting a new "RESTfull compliant" site

Rails
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I’ve no problems mapping some concepts to resources like the
classics article, post, person, event, etc… But some
aspects of a WebApp I find no REST answer, like a “homepage”
which shows a summary of the latests articles, posts and
events in the site. It’s not about 1 resource or a collection
of resources of the same kind, it’s about a bunch of
different resources.

In this case, your homepage is a resource which summarizes the latest
changes to the articles, posts, and events resources. In this case, GET
is a meaningful request, while POST, PUT, and DELETE are probably not.
Your dashboard resource probably acts similarly, while your “about this
site” resource probably behaves more like a traditional static file.

  • donald
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On 21 feb, 15:10, “Ball, Donald A Jr (Library)”
[email protected] wrote:

is a meaningful request, while POST, PUT, and DELETE are probably not.
Your dashboard resource probably acts similarly, while your “about this
site” resource probably behaves more like a traditional static file.

Mmm… Ok. But I see no Homepage model (or dashboard, or about) in
that.
Would it be teorically ok (thinking of REST and resources) to have a
HomepageController which manages no model?

All examples I’ve seen have a 1 to 1 relation between a Controller and
a Model.

Diego