Reverb.com Dev Blog | HAL, Siren, Rabl, Roar, Garner: Building Hypermedia APIs in Ruby/Rails10 months ago by reverbyan-deactivated20131219 Untitled | Notes: 1 Why build Hypermedia APIs? This week we started to build out the Reverb API. Being a greenfield project, we decided to investigate the best practices for building truly RESTful (that is, Hypermedia-based) APIs. The key takeaway for such APIs is that no out-of-band knowledge is passed between the server and the client (meaning bas
