Comments on: Trying out ActiveResource in 3 minutes http://www.rickylui.com/blog/2008/02/09/trying-out-activeresource-in-3-minutes/ Musings through my coloured lenses. Or you can call this Ricky Bobby's musings. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:06:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Services != Distributed Object at Deterministic Musings http://www.rickylui.com/blog/2008/02/09/trying-out-activeresource-in-3-minutes/#comment-201 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:14:51 +0000 http://www.rickylui.com/blog/2008/02/09/trying-out-activeresource-in-3-minutes/#comment-201 [...] (The title quotes Joshua Graham’s comment here) I agree completely with Josh. In a casual conversation with Tim Cochran of Thoughtworks, we both felt that using RESTful controllers does not mean exposing all of your model objects, or database tables. Thoughts still need to go into designing the right interfaces. [...] […] (The title quotes Joshua Graham’s comment here) I agree completely with Josh. In a casual conversation with Tim Cochran of Thoughtworks, we both felt that using RESTful controllers does not mean exposing all of your model objects, or database tables. Thoughts still need to go into designing the right interfaces. […]

]]> by: JoshG http://www.rickylui.com/blog/2008/02/09/trying-out-activeresource-in-3-minutes/#comment-196 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:41:43 +0000 http://www.rickylui.com/blog/2008/02/09/trying-out-activeresource-in-3-minutes/#comment-196 RPC!! Run away, run away! Services != Distributed Objects. It's not about exposing your domain model to consumers of the service layer (probably unavoidable in Rails due to the fact that your domain model is also exposed to the database - or vice versa). I know you're just playing around for learning but the time taken to create useful services is not in the tool. Mind you, this is a good tool for incremental service build out in a rapidly changing environment. RPC!! Run away, run away!

Services != Distributed Objects. It’s not about exposing your domain model to consumers of the service layer (probably unavoidable in Rails due to the fact that your domain model is also exposed to the database - or vice versa).

I know you’re just playing around for learning but the time taken to create useful services is not in the tool. Mind you, this is a good tool for incremental service build out in a rapidly changing environment.

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