Rails API

Basics of creating an API=only server with Rails with AngularJS in the frontend. Code: https://github.com/sayanee/Talks/tree/master/013-rails-api

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1. Rails API ruby meetup 29 apr 2014
2. api only version json cors auth mock server testing
3. backend frontend logic view rails angular puma nginx localhost:3000 localhost:8888 domainapi.com domain.com
4. api only
5. api only simpler Gemfile remove /app/views folder
6. api only /app/controllers/application_controller.rb
7. api only /app/controllers/pages_controller.rb /config/routes.rb
8. api only demo git checkout step1
9. version
10. version /app/controllers/api/v1/api_controller.rb /app/controllers/api/v1/meetups_controller.rb
11. version /config/routes.rb $ rails g model Meetup name:string event:datetime $ rake db:migrate $ rails c > Meetup.create(name: 'April meetup', event: Time.now)
12. version demo git checkout step2
13. json gem ‘active_model_serializers' rails g serializer meetup
14. json /app/serializers/meetup_serializer.rb
15. json /app/controllers/api/v1/meetups_controller.rb
16. json demo git checkout step3
17. cors
18. cors frontend markup to display data
19. cors frontend script to query api
20. cors gem ‘rack-cors'
21. cors /config/application.rb
22. auth
23. auth /db/migrate/xxx_add_auth_token_to_users.rb /app/models/user.rb
24. auth /app/controllers/registrations_controller.rb backend - token sent as part of headers
25. auth javascript frontend - token received and stored
26. auth demo token stored in local storage
27. auth /app/controllers/api/v1/meetups_controller.rb check token before every api request
28. auth /app/controllers/api/v1/api_controller.rb
29. auth demo git checkout step5
30. mock server
31. mock server /mock_server/server.rb with sinatra - start a mock server
32. mock server /config/secrets.yml /app/controllers/api/v1/questions_controller.rb using mock server in test & dev environments
33. mock server demo git checkout step6
34. testing
35. testing /spec/controllers/meetups_controller_spec.rb test for json response
36. testing demo git checkout step7
37. other resources demo code: github.com/ sayanee/talks/013-rails-api