Bill de hÓra: "Just" use POST
PUT means update the resource with this entity, which tends means "overwrite". Now think for a moment about how that works for things like tags in a blog post - if I leave the tag out, am I saying remove it? Ignore it? Do I have to echo back all the data so it doesn't get scrubbed?
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A collection of useful design resources for developers
This collection contains some useful design resources for developers. Many of them were mentioned in the Refactoring UI tutorials.
Tutorials
- Refactoring UI Videos
- [Refactori...
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Once you start introducing partial updates, you open yourself for caching problems. doing partial updates means all cached copies of the original resource are now invalid.
JSON APIs: Default design for common features
When you build a JSON API you need to come up with a style to represent attributes, pagination, errors or including associated objects. Instead of reinventing the wheel, you may reuse successful API designs.
JSON API
[JSON:API](https://...
Rails: Rest API post-mortem analysis
This is a personal post-mortem analysis of a project that was mainly build to provide a REST API to mobile clients.
For the API backend we used the following components:
- Active Model Serializer (AMS) to serializer our Active Record models to J...
Video transcoding: Web and native playback overview (April 2020)
Intro
Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a <video> tag to your source code and it just works. Most of the time.
The thing is: Both the **operating system and Browser of your client must support the container ...
Sam Ruby: Progressive Disclosure
Without intending to take anything away from Roy’s (valid) criticism on labeling, REST isn’t an all or nothing proposition. One can get significant value from partial adoption.
The Ruby Object Model
In Ruby (almost) everything is an Object. While this enables a lot of powerful features, this concept might be confusing for developers who have been programming in more static languages, such as Java or C#. This card should help understanding t...
Building web applications: Beyond the happy path
When building a web application, one is tempted to claim it "done" too early. Make sure you check this list.
Different screen sizes and browsers
Desktops, tablets and mobile devices have all different screen resolutions. Does your design wor...
Rails: Assigning associations via HTML forms
Let's say we have posts with an attribute title that is mandatory.
Our example feature request is to tag these posts with a limited number of tags. The following chapters explain different approaches in Rails, how you can assign such a...
A simpler default controller implementation
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is unnecessarily verbose.
When we take over Rails projects from other teams, we often find that cont...