Classy Web Development with Sinatra Episode 2: A REST Service

Sinatra is also great for writing (lots of) small REST services. In this episode, we’ll write a simple REST service that lets us create, read, update, and delete quips and quotes. You’ll learn how to:

• Create a basic REST service with Sinatra
• Write handlers to create, read, update, and delete resources
• Use Active Record with Sinatra for database persistence
• Respond to requests with XML or JSON formats
• Use the RestClient library to interact with the REST service
• Make an Atom feed
• Protect resources with basic HTTP authentication
• Use the last_modified helper to improve performance
• Define a custom 404 and error handler