Hallo -- I'm writing a RESTful web service with ActiveResource, and now need
to handle things like how to tell the client calling the service that things
have gone well (a 200 response, I think), or have failed for some reason
(validations or otherwise).Can anyone offer any pointers to the codes I
need, how to send them, & how to piggyback any extra information (like
details of why an action failed) onto the codes?
Cheers,
   Doug.

There is a lot of information like that in the api:

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveResource/Base.html

I might also suggest you create a quick scaffold and check out the  
controller it creates, as the format.xml that it returns in each  
method covers your question mostly.  Example with html cut out:

     respond_to do |format|
       if @machine.save
         format.xml  { render :xml => @machine, :status  
=> :created, :location => @machine }
       else
         format.xml  { render :xml => @machine.errors, :status  
=> :unprocessable_entity }
       end
     end

Hope that helps.

Cheers

- Jamie van Dyke
- Chief Technical Officer
- Parfait

On 17 Jul 2008, at 03:22, doug livesey wrote:

That helps absolutely loads -- cheers, man!

2008/7/17 Jamie van Dyke <ja...@parfa.it>: