[pstuart]

I upvoted you.

I would like to learn how to do REST "right", and (for me) it's easier to learn by playing with a working example that deals with "real world" issues as opposed to abstract snippets that only show how APIs get used.

Any further insights/examples/pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[arethuza]

I've been using CouchDB in a personal project for 6 months or so and it's been my first real exposure to an actual RESTful interface and I have to say that the experience has been pretty pleasant. I started working through the examples using curl in the CouchDB - The Definitive Guide and then moved on to building code to interface with it:

http://guide.couchdb.org/