November 2, 2005 Matt Biddulph Imagine a news website with simple URLs for its news items and the categories they belong to: http://example.com/item/15 and http://example.com/category/rails. Suppose that it has been built using Ruby on Rails. In the article, we'll discuss how to REST-enable this site, giving read-write HTTP access to machine-readable representations of its resources. By the end of