# Web Game Written in Rails - Restful or No?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-game-written-in-rails-restful-or-no/146650>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 23, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-game-written-in-rails-restful-or-no/146650 "2008-08-23T16:26:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![yinkyank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/d9b06d/32.png) [@yinkyank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yinkyank)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-game-written-in-rails-restful-or-no/146650/1 "2008-08-23T16:26:42Z")

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Writing a simple web game in Rails and wondering in the case of an  
application like a game whether there’s any point to doing things  
RESTfully? It’s not an application where I can imagine clients needing  
to connect and manipulate the game’s resources as they might, say, in  
an application for organizing contacts.

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**Author:** ![yinkyank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/d9b06d/32.png) [@yinkyank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yinkyank)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-game-written-in-rails-restful-or-no/146650/2 "2008-08-23T18:02:41Z")

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YinkYank wrote:

> Writing a simple web game in Rails and wondering in the case of an  
> application like a game whether there’s any point to doing things  
> RESTfully? It’s not an application where I can imagine clients needing  
> to connect and manipulate the game’s resources as they might, say, in  
> an application for organizing contacts.

Oh joy. An online game where the players compete _by_ cheating and  
hacking the wire.

Heeeey that’s not a bad idea! (-:

–  
Phlip