rails-api/rails-api

Rails::API is a subset of a normal Rails application, created for API-only applications: #ruby #rails #api #cool

Resourceful Routing: If you're building a RESTful JSON API, you want to be using the Rails router. Clean and conventional mapping from HTTP to controllers means not having to spend time thinking about how to model your API in terms of HTTP. URL Generation: The flip side of routing is URL generation. A good API based on HTTP includes URLs (see the GitHub gist API for an example). Header and Redirection Responses: head :no_content and redirect_to user_url(current_user) come in handy. Sure, you could manually add the response headers, but why? Caching: Rails provides page, action and fragment caching. Fragment caching is especially helpful when building up a nested JSON object. Basic, Digest and Token Authentication: Rails comes with out-of-the-box support for three kinds of HTTP authentication. Instrumentation: Rails 3.0 added an instrumentation API that will trigger registe...

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