Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects is a guide to joining the burgeoning world of open web applications. It argues that opening up your application can provide significant benefits and involves you in the entire process-from setting up your application, to creating clients for it, to handling success and all its attendant problems. * This book is the essential resource for anyone who wants to make their web application a full participant in the new Internet. * This book is intended for intermediate-to-advanced Rails developers-people who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical roll-your-own blog. * In particular, it's targeted at Rails developers who want to be good Web 2.0 citizens-sharing the functionality of their app with other sites to the betterment of everyone. * Application projects include iPhone, Facebook, and REST for the enterprise. What you'll learn * Develop REST web services in Rails 2 Framework. * Build from the server-side perspective and integrate with PHP. * Build from the client side using a JavaScript widget. * Develop RESTful application on Rails for the Apple iPhone. * Create a Facebook application using REST on Rails. * Examine REST on Rails for the Enterprise. Who this book is for This book is intended for intermediate-to-advanced Rails developers-people who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical roll-your-own blog.