Solved my issue.
It turns out because I have a folder named composer/
that happens to be two folders up from where the Restler app sits it ruins the Restler autoloader. To solve the issue one needs to do one of the following:
1) Don't have any folder named composer/
two folders up from where the Restler app resides
2) Modify the Restler autoloader to skip the folder (at the time of this post you could comment out line 138
of /vendor/Luracast/Restler/Autoloader.php
)
A more elegant solution has been proposed by me on GitHub:
Issue: https://github.com/Luracast/Restler/issues/195
Pull Request: https://github.com/Luracast/Restler/pull/196
By the time someone else finds this post hopefully the issue will be resolved in future versions of Restler.