Jupiter is a test bed for ActiveResource over XMPP using Switchboard and a
modified version of ARes in the activeresource-xmpp branch of
mojodna/rails (forked from Rails 2.2.2).
See test.rb for sample usage. (It uses app/models/post.rb as the resource
descriptor.)
ActiveResource is extremely tied to HTTP (e.g. use of Content-Length headers
and HTTP verbs), but there's no reason that it shouldn't work over a separate
transport that can handle REST semantics. XMPP's use of asynchronous
_retract_s and _publish_es cause particular problems, as ARes expects
responses immediately. XmppConnection could be adapted to block on those
operations, but that potentially eliminates some of its power.
XMPP also provides the ability to subscribe to event notifications when items are published, updated, or retracted. Hooks could be built into ARes models so that applications can listen and respond to such notifications.
Install dependencies:
$ sudo gem install mojodna-switchboard -s http://gems.github.com
$ git clone git://github.com/mojodna/mars.git
Initialize submodules:
$ git submodule update --init
Configure and start up Mars.
Run the test script (modify it to try out different functionality):
$ script/runner test.rb