rest-api-generator

This gem helps you to build a Ruby on Rails REST API faster, using a scaffold-like generator that follows the best practices.

Get started

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How it works?

The gems use vanilla Rails generators in combination with our templates to create all the resources needed to build a REST API.

Following Switch Dreams's coding practices, the controllers are built with:

• We use an error module to centralize error handling, rescuing from a custom and some of ActiveRecord exceptions. The inspiration for this strategy was this article

• For tests, we use RSpec and FactoryBot.

Current Features

• Automatic rest api crud generation
• Nested Resource
• :goal_net: Modular error handler
• :memo: Automated documentation
• Resource ordering
• Resource filter
• Resource pagination
• Resource serialization
• Configurable
• Callbacks

Next Features

• Integration with AVO
• Select fields
• User auth module

Other alternatives

This gem resolves a very common problem so the are a lot of alternative in the market.

• decent_exposure
• resourcerer

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/SwitchDreams/rest-api-generator. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.