[anotherangrydev]

2006? Come ON!

How about the whole WSDL/SOAP services that appeared way before that? You're telling me that Rails was the one who came out with the modern REST ideas?

That's total tech illiteracy right there. Damn, you even had the nerve to defend that feeble argument.

[techpeace]

WSDL/SOAP are not REST. I'm telling you that REST was popularized by Rails, because it was the first major web framework to use it. You've yet to refute that argument, but you do continue to be rude, so have a good one!

[anotherangrydev]

>WSDL/SOAP are not REST

Well if you define REST as "Web Apps developed with RoR" then I guess you're right, Rails is definiteley the pioneer of Rails development.

>You've yet to refute that argument

There was (at least) Tomcat deployed and quite popular, and yep, everything moved through REST interfaces. Even with that one and the huge success it had in the enterprise world, I wouldn't dare to say that the success of REST relies on Tomcat anyway.

REST hit it big with the www, www is REST's killer app. Those things are quite literally the first ones you should know when you start developing for the web.