# Building a webservice with ruby on rails

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/building-a-webservice-with-ruby-on-rails/60382>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [August 14, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/building-a-webservice-with-ruby-on-rails/60382 "2011-08-14T00:33:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/building-a-webservice-with-ruby-on-rails/60382/1 "2011-08-14T00:33:33Z")

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Hi, i'm new in this forum.

I need build a web service with ruby on rails, but i don't found a example that works. Somebody can help me with this?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Dheeraj\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dheeraj\_Kumar](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Dheeraj_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/building-a-webservice-with-ruby-on-rails/60382/2 "2011-08-14T03:44:38Z")

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Have you tried this?

[http://squarism.com/2011/04/01/how-to-write-a-ruby-rails-3-rest-api/](http://squarism.com/2011/04/01/how-to-write-a-ruby-rails-3-rest-api/)

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**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/building-a-webservice-with-ruby-on-rails/60382/3 "2011-08-15T00:20:57Z")

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Thank you so much, works!

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**Author:** ![Fernando\_Almeida](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@Fernando\_Almeida](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Fernando_Almeida)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/building-a-webservice-with-ruby-on-rails/60382/4 "2011-08-15T03:36:14Z")

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Examples with authentication

[http://www.justinbritten.com/work/2009/05/rails-api-authentication-using-restful-authentication/](http://www.justinbritten.com/work/2009/05/rails-api-authentication-using-restful-authentication/)

[http://www.whatcodecraves.com/articles/2008/11/25/how\_to\_make\_an\_api\_for\_a\_rails\_app/](http://www.whatcodecraves.com/articles/2008/11/25/how_to_make_an_api_for_a_rails_app/)