APIs on Rails: Building REST APIs with Rails

The purpose of this book is to provide answers on how to develop RESTful APIs by following the best practices available, as well as the author’s own experience. Once you’re done with the Rails APIs, you’ll be able to create your own API and integrate it with any client, such as your next web browser or mobile app.

This book is a steroid guide on how to build your next API with Rails. The goal of this book is to provide answers on how to develop RESTful APIs by following the best practices available, as well as the author’s own experience.

The purpose of this book is not only to teach you how to build an API with Rails but to teach you how to build a scalable and maintainable API with Rails, which means putting the knowledge Take your existing Rails to the next level in this approach.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The API
Chapter 3: Presenting the users
Chapter 4: Refactoring tests
Chapter 5: Authenticating users
Chapter 6: User products
Chapter 7: JSON with Active Model Serializers
Chapter 8: Placing Orders
Chapter 9: Improving orders
Chapter 10: Optimization

Abraham Kuri is a Rails developer with 5 years of experience. His experience includes working as a freelancer building software products and more recently working with the open source community. He has developed Furatto a front-end framework built with Sass, Sabisu, the next-generation API explorer for your Rails app, and collaborated on other projects.

APIs on Rails PDF

Author(s): Abraham Kuri (Author)

Publisher: Abraham Kuri Vargas, Year: 2015

The goal of this book is to provide an answer on how to develop a RESTful API following the best practices out there, along with my own experience. By the time you are done with APIs on Rails, you should be able to build your own API and integrate it with any clients such as a web browser or your next mobile app.