RORO 06/2012 - Bustle & API Taster

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1. @fredwu
   

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2. API Taster
   Bustle
   

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3. Bustle
   https://github.com/fredwu/bustle
   

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4. Readme Driven Development
   RDD
   

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5. Activities recording and
   retrieving using a simple
   Pub/Sub* architecture.
   * At least on surface it is, lol.
   

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7. Like Faye, Redis and ZeroMQ, etc
   A "traditional" pub/sub
   usually involves 3rd party
   services
   

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8. I want...
   

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9. Really simple, perl devs would hate it
   Don't need to support 100M (imaginary) users
   Works with ActiveRecord
   Can be extended/migrated to use with other
   data stores
   Decoupled from the main app
   

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10. Bustle Overview
    Publisher Subscriber
    Subscription
    Active
    Record
    Persistence Layer w/
    orm_adapter
    Redis
    Faye
    

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11. Simple API
    Bustle::Publishers.add
    Bustle::Subscribers.add
    Bustle::Subscriptions.add
    Bustle::Publisher.publish
    Bustle::Subscriber.activities
    and a few others ...
    

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12. gem 'bustle'
    

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13. https://github.com/fredwu/api_taster
    API Taster
    

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14. It's insanely great.
    

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15. Just kidding.
    

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16. *For some, I hope.
    But it's useful.*
    

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17. *Not just on surface!! (╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻
    A quick and easy way* to
    visually test your Rails
    application's API
    

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19. It's a Chrome extension
    Every single API needs to be manually defined
    Inputs (request data) need to be manually
    entered
    Can't share the inputs easily
    Postman is Awesome, But...
    

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20. I want...
    

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21. API endpoints are automatically generated from
    your Rails routes definition
    Defining inputs is as easy as defining routes
    Post params can be shared with your test
    factories
    

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23. Isn't it beautiful?
    

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24. gem 'api_taster'
    

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25. Demo
    

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