Using REST in different programming languages
As the final part of our discussion on REST and RESTful services, before we dive toward WordPress and start the next chapter, let us take a look at usage and implementation of REST in different programming languages. If you are an existing WordPress developer and are well-versed with PHP, you might wish to skip this section and move ahead. However, for the benefit of those who might have migrated to WordPress development or those who are familiar with some other popular web development language, I have provided the methods for sending GET and POST requests via HTTP in the programming languages that I know of.
Let us begin with Ruby.
Ruby
In Ruby, you can send HTTP requests using the Net::HTTP class. Thus, ...
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