This may seem like a good idea at first sight -- a service that turns

http://servicereg.com/verb/{user:password@}domain/noun{/id?params}

into a corresponding GET, PUT, POST or DELETE against a RESTful Rails app.

Unfortunately, it has two major problems:

• It defeats the whole purpose of RESTful design, which is to use the HTTP verbs according to their meaning
• It basically assumes "RESTful service" equals the way Rails does them, which is one, but definitely not the only way