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Source: http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api

• Use SSL
• Do not redirect from non-SSL to SSL (encourages clients to keep doing it)
• Version in the URL (At least major)
• Unary attribute (+/-) in sort params to indicate direction of sort
• Provide way for user to specify return fields
• snake_case is easier to read (Even though it is not the standard way to define variables in Javascript: CamelCase)
• pretty print by default (responses are slightly larger). Over-arching concept is that an API should also be human-readable
• Support .gz compression, if not default to it. Much faster API

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hoitomt

OSX: Run two instances of Redis

Copy and update redis.conf

The redis configuration file is likely located at /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

cp /usr/local/etc/redis.conf /usr/local/etc/redis2.conf

Change the port number from 6379 to something else. I used 6380

Accept connections on the specified port, default is 6379.

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# Retrieve the user
user = User.find(params[:user_id])
  
# Get all of the messages for the user and order so that the most recent message is first
raw_messages = Message.where("sender_user_id=? or receiver_user_id=?", user.id, user.id).order("created_at DESC")

# Our goal is to make a hash that looks like this:
# {
#   other_party_1: [msg1, msg2, msg3],
#   other_party_2: [msg7, msg8, msg9],