[Rails] Re: interview questions on REST

Thanks,

I have been through that wikipedia dry and theoretical stuff a bit
before. Some of it is useful, but I can't always seem to draw out what
are the main points that I should care the most about and what is
assumed such as client/server is obviously an assumption, but if I
don't give a fully qualified answer then someone might think I am
lacking I suppose. I have a degree in CS from 1990, so any response on
what is a good answer to this type of question might be instructional
to me.

I think I like Ruby alot as a language, but the front end GUI stuff
with html, http, javascript, css and all gets me less excited. I
realize I have to try to get into those areas a good deal in order to
have some edge as a Rails developer, so I make some attempt but not
enough to be a real expert the way I look at it. I then have had
people think I was too much of a GUI person because of all of that
stuff on my resume.

I did find the Restfull Rails blog post interesting, but it seemed
like it was labeled part 1 and there was no follow up, but I see there
are other articles on restfull rails so you may have pointed me in the
right direction.

One thing that the article said was:
"There are two other verbs that you might not have heard of because
browsers don't support them: PUT and DELETE"

rails templates don't cause PUT or DELETE to be sent to the server ?

I am not sure if this REST stuff is in any way related to how you can
have a situation where the browser back and forward buttons don't work
the same because the web page gets modified with dynamic html. I know
there are ways around that, but sometimes when you are messing around
and just adding some dynamic AJAX or RJS stuff you end up with
something like that until you decide what the final site layout might
be.

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