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Introducing the Rails API Project Ruby on Rails is a great tool to build websites incredibly quickly and easily. But what about applications that aren't websites? Rails is still a first-class choice for this use-case, but why settle for good when you could be the best? That's why I'm happy to introduce Rails API: a set of tools to build excellent APIs for both heavy Javascript applications as well as non-Web API clients. What Rails' greatest feature is making trivial choices for you. By following conventions, you're able to avoid bikeshedding and only focus on the actual decisions that matter for your application, while automatically building in best-practices. Rails API will do this for the API use-case. Here are some initial thoughts on what Rails API will do for you: A simpler stack First, we can remove many parts of Rails that aren't important in an API context: many m...

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