Comments on: The REST Way http://ascarter.net/blog/2006/10/03/the-rest-way/ coding in the rain Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Laurel Fan http://ascarter.net/blog/2006/10/03/the-rest-way/#comment-41 Laurel Fan Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:52:05 +0000 http://ascarter.net/blog/2006/10/03/the-rest-way/#comment-41 One reason REST is wrong is the same way TDD (Test Driven Development) is wrong and the same way ActiveRecord is wrong. Any sort of model based on simplicity and convention-over-configuration breaks when someone tries to do "complicated" things with it. I don't think that's a bad thing -- I think simplicity is a feature in itself (would you rather implement 10 simple features or 1 complex feature? And which would you rather maintain?), and anything that encourages it can be good. One reason REST is wrong is the same way TDD (Test Driven Development) is wrong and the same way ActiveRecord is wrong. Any sort of model based on simplicity and convention-over-configuration breaks when someone tries to do “complicated” things with it.

I don’t think that’s a bad thing — I think simplicity is a feature in itself (would you rather implement 10 simple features or 1 complex feature? And which would you rather maintain?), and anything that encourages it can be good.

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