= Classy Resources

With a simple, declarative syntax, you can create active_resource compatible REST APIs incredibly quickly. 

Think resource_controller, except for Sinatra.

= Installation

  sudo gem install giraffesoft-classy_resources

= Usage

  require 'rubygems'
  require 'sinatra'
  require 'classy_resources'
  require 'classy_resources/active_record'
  # ... or require 'classy_resources/sequel'
  # more ORMs coming (it's also easy to implement your own)...

  define_resource :posts, :member     => [:get, :put, :delete],
                          :collection => [:get, :post],
                          :formats    => [:xml, :json, :yaml]

The above declaration will create the five actions specified, each responding to all of the formats listed.
  
  - GET /resources.format      # => index
  - POST /resources.format     # => create
  - GET /resources/1.format    # => show
  - PUT /resources/1.format    # => update
  - DELETE /resources/1.format # => destroy

Since ClassyResources was designed to be active resource compatible, the params formats and return values are what AR expects.

= Overrides

In the above example, :posts would map to a Post class. If your class is named differently, you just override class_for. For example, if your Post class was stored in a module:
  
  def class_for(resource)
    MyModule.const_get(resource.to_s.singularize.classify.constantize)
  end
    
Or, if you wanted to change how objects were being serialized:

  def serialize(object, format)
    MySerializer.new(object, format).to_s
  end

Other method signatures you might want to override:
  
  - def load_collection(resource)
  - def build_object(resource, params)
  - def load_object(resource, id)
  - def update_object(object, params) # Note that this doesn't save. It just changes the attributes.
  - def destroy_object(object)

== Copyright

Copyright (c) 2008 James Golick, Daniel Haran, GiraffeSoft Inc.. See LICENSE for details.