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Ruby + Sinatra for now. It's great for tiny services that work together. A full web service to implement '/add/1/2' is just require 'sinatra'; get('/add/:a/:

• boucher 18y ago
  Sinatra is definitely an interesting project. We recently "ported" it to JavaScript: http://github.com/tlrobinson/jack/blob/030685ef3de4c29c38b4e2ce22f638b698532b2b/lib/roundabout.js http://github.com/tlrobinson/jack/blob/030685ef3de4c29c38b4e... The same webservice would be: roundabout.route({ path:"/add/{a}/{b}", get: function(){this.body = this.wildcards["a"] + this.wildcards["b"];} }) or, alternatively: roundabout.get("/add/{a}/{b}", function(){ this.body = this.wildcards.a + this.wildcards.b; }); The first syntax is a tad longer, but its much more useful; you can define any method with the name of an HTTP verb for that path, and you can also define a filter parameter that will be queried before the path is matched. The filter lets you do whatever pre-processing you want, so you could filter out requests from a specific user-agent for example, or all URLs that use mixed case, or anything else you can think of.
  • lsb 18y ago
    That looks really cool; how's that been working out? Is that in production? If Ruby had Gambit Scheme's serializable continuations, that would be pretty interesting times.
    • boucher 18y ago
      We're not yet using it in production, its only a few weeks old, but we will be in some of the things we're working on. One of the main benefits is letting us run objective-j and cappuccino on the server, letting us share application data models in the client and the server.