@t0nylombardi Okay, if that's what you want to do its not do bad. basically you're talking about doing "filters" which in the REST world is typically accomplished via a query string.
let's look at an example, say you have a books api
So you can have a request like /api/v1/books/q?sort=DESC
In your controller for the show method you would need to build a dynamic query. I'm not super familar with rails, but this is the pseduo code
def show
start grabbing Books.
if there's a url.sort, then do a orderby(title,url.sort)
if there's a url.year, then do a where('published_year',url.year)
output the results to json
end
Does this help at all?