Alas, the rapid prototyping is a trap I fall into all the time. Spinning up an o...

cheald · on July 6, 2012

Sinatra is pretty great for rapid prototyping. For example: https://gist.github.com/3062572

Then I just invoke it with "shotgun rest.rb" and hit http://localhost:9393/ and I'm up and running. It's not running through Apache, but it's not really significantly more difficult than PHP prototyping.

    curl -d "foo[bar]=1&foo[baz]=hello%20there" http://localhost:9393/foos
    {"result":"success"}

    curl http://localhost:9393/foos/1
    {"bar":"1","baz":"hello there","id":"1"}

Easy peasy.

gee_totes · on July 11, 2012

Agreed, actually. I learned I can stand up Sintra and not bork my local apache instance, and now I'm hooked. Thanks!

cdr · on July 7, 2012

Flask works very similarly in python-land. When I want to whip up an API I fire up Flask + curl.

jurre · on July 6, 2012

I have the same thing set up with a couple of lines in the terminal with rails though, it's just a matter of having some experience with the tools.