I’ve posted about the subject before but if you’re new to Ruby on Rails and Restful development, here’s a couple of usefull links and tutorials to get you started:
“Introduction to Restful Rails Development in Rails”
“PeepCode ScreenCasts: RESTful Rails”
“How to Create a new Action in REST”
“Caching XML in REST”
“Rails Restful Authentication”
If anyone has more resources on the subject, don’t hesitate to share.