RubyConf 2008: Waves: a Resource-Oriented Framework
Most Web application frameworks today focus on a single basic architectural style, a variation of the MVC architecture popularized by Sun. In many respect, MVC is fundamentally at odds with the intrinsic architecture of the Web itself, which is a resource-oriented model based on HTTP. This architecture forms the basis of REST and has been widely adopted, forcing Web frameworks to retrofit MVC t...