[Ruby] Restful ORM

[Blake Barnett]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Tom Lianza wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Dave Thompson <dandrew.thompson at gmail.com 
> >
> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of any projects developing
>> ActiveRecord/Datamapper/ORM-to-restful services.
>>
>> For example, let's say I want to create a model  
>> SomeRestfulWebsite.rb which
>> would serve as an ORM interface for me to interact with a restful  
>> website.
>> That way I could call <% SomeRestfulWebsite.user.name.first %> and  
>> it would
>> pull the values from the restful website into my application.
>>
>> Thoughts? Thanks.
>
>
> My understanding, based on DHH's keynote last year at RailsConf, was  
> that is
> exactly what ActiveResource is.

The Heroko guys also wrote a simple REST client:
http://rest-client.heroku.com/rdoc/

-Blake