Ben Scofield

Ben Scofield

Viget Labs

Ben Scofield is a senior developer at Viget Labs, where he builds Rails applications for Web 2.0 startups. He’s been using Ruby and Rails for over three years, and is active in the community, speaking at Railsconf, Rails to Italy, and Rubyconf in 2007. In his copious free time, he spends time with his family, works on personal projects (like My Pull List), and wishes for more free time.

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Location: Portland Ballroom 252
Ben Scofield (Viget Labs)
Designing RESTful systems in Rails carries many benefits. It is not a problem-free approach, however; there are accessibility issues with the standard conventions, and some functions are more difficult to map to resources than others. In this session, we'll look at solutions for these (and other) problems that arise when you take REST beyond the standard examples. Read more.
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