Active resource in rails
This is a powerful feature of rails to communicate between two models in two different application running in two different server. ActiveResource:Base is the main class for mapping RESTful resources as models in a Rails application. Active Resource objects represent your RESTful resources as manipulatable Ruby objects. To map resources to Ruby objects, Active Resource only needs a class name that corresponds to the resource name (e.g., the class User maps to the resources Products, very similarly to Active Record) and a site value, which holds the URI of the resources. class User < ActiveResource::Base self.site = "http://api.products.com:3000/" end In order to access products.com controller you need to send the json response like i am going to call the index action so we need to write :- def index @products = Product.all respond_to do |format| format.json { render :json => @products} end end Now the User class is mapped to RESTful resources located