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Romain
Romain

Reputation: 91

Need Help to "setup" a RESTful webservice

I open this topic because I'm going to need a little help for rails and Webservices and also because i am a beginner.

I have now need to "build" a webservice that will enable a third party application (mobile application) to connect to a mySQL database server hosted on my ubuntu 10.04 server

So I have already committed some research and asked some questions and it seems that Rails 3.0 can help me materialize my project by creating a RESTful webservice type (that I don't know yet exactly what it is). Anyway, what I have understood is that I could make requests of kind 'http' in my DB via webservice that will return an XML I can parse.

So I have installed on my server ruby 1.8.7 and gem 1.8.21

I have then launched the famous gem install rails and everything seems ok ... I have Rails in its 3.2.3 version

Only now I 've no idea how to "create" my webservice (and where I must put it ? In /var/www/ to be reach from the web ?) Or how to parameter the 'linker' with a mySQL DB.

I have understood by reading different things on internet setting up a RESTful webservice with rails is not to complicate but i really don't find how to setup mine ... that's why i need help ! A lot of tutorials i've seen are too old. And I really would like advices to set it up !

So you have some tips, some ideas, or tips for m 'refer and help me to put all this in place.

Thanks for all !

Upvotes: 0

Views: 251

Answers (1)

John
John

Reputation: 3296

A fantastic, up-to-date tutorial that is the very first thing you should look at (in my opinion) is the Rails Tutorial E-Book which you can go over for free here. You're way in over your head right now.

Upvotes: 1

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