caSmall: A caTissue web service and application micro-framework

Home: http://caruby.rubyforge.org/casmall.html
Git: http://github.com/caruby/small
Author: OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
Copyright: 2012
License: MIT License

Synopsis

caSmall is a framework for deploying a caTissue RESTful web service and custom web applications. This project features a web service. The companion Scat project is a light-weight web application.

Feature List

Search, create and update caTissue objects.
Leverages the caRuby declarative API.

Installing

caSmall is installed on a server as a JRuby gem: sudo jgem install caruby-small

Usage

Examples:

Fetch the specimen with identifier 212:

GET myserver:9060/casmall/specimen/212

Fetch the specimen collection group with SPN SPN-41873:

GET myserver:9060/casmall/SpecimenCollectionGroup?surgicalPathologyNumber=SPN-41873

Fetch specimens based on a submitted JSON criterion template:

POST myserver:9060/casmall/query

Create a specimen from a submitted JSON object:

POST myserver:9060/casmall/

Update a specimen from a submitted JSON object:

PUT myserver:9060/casmall/

The JSON payload is described in the Jinx JSON project.