Warning: shameless self-promotion ahead: db = require('./your_sexy_data_access_module') server = require('lazorse').server port: 3000, -> # in this

Warning: shameless self-promotion ahead: db = require('./your_sexy_data_access_module') server = require('lazorse').server port: 3000, -> # in this context we register resources the app using @resource @resource '/things/{thingId}': shortName: "Things" GET: -> db.getThing @thingId, @data POST: -> db.getThing @thingId, (err, thing) => return @next(err) if err thing.update(@req, @data) Where @data is node-style callback function taking (err, data), and the data will be rendered by a separate middleware layer that inspects Accept headers and does the Right Thing. There's a lot more than should be covered in an HN comment, but in interest of DRYing out the above example, let's rewrite it to use a coercion to retrieve "thing" instances. db = require('./your_sexy_data_access_module') server = require('lazorse').server port: 3000, -> @coerce 'thing', "Things are whatever this app deals in", db.getThing @resource '/things/{thing}': shortName: "Things" GET: -> # Use @ok because we won't get here if there was an error retrieving # the thing @ok @thing POST: -> @thing.update @req, @data See http://betsmartmedia.github.com/Lazorse http://betsmartmedia.github.com/Lazorse for full API docs and examples. Bug reports, pull requests, flame comments etc. are all very welcome :)