Unless you’re not a Software Engineer, or you are but have spent the past 18 months on a different planet, you’ve probably heard all about how Rails 2.0 is RESTful. Now, before we get too far into what exactly “RESTful” means, let’s set a reference point: the only document I am aware of that nobody disputes — too much, anyway — is Roy Fielding’s dissertation on Representational State Transfer (REST). So, for the sake of brevity, let’s assume we don’t need to elaborate the finer points of the REST architectural style and just take Fielding’s work at face value. Resources and Rails REST basically states that messages between system components — like browsers and servers — are requests and responses that represent resources. That is to say, resources [...]