Month: December 2011

How To Design Rails API Using Rabl & Devise

by Sethupathi Asokan, posted in Ruby on Rails

Most of us are aware that enabling API access for rails application is easy as Rails provides RESTful APIs by default. However, a little complexity arises when some responses are expected in xml format (maybe for some legacy system) and JSON format. Complexity increases when these API calls need authentication. The initial obvious thought that … Continue reading How To Design Rails API Using Rabl & Devise

How Well Sencha Touch MVC Application Works With Rails

by Swapnil Chincholkar, posted in Mobile Development, Ruby

For sometime, we have been toying around with different frameworks to build cross-platform mobile applications. Our latest research was with Sencha Touch. This post is a tutorial to get kick-started. Installation To run Sencha Touch application you need: A running web server. I used a Rails server running on localhost:3000 A WebKit based browser like … Continue reading How Well Sencha Touch MVC Application Works With Rails