Using ActionController::API for just API controllers

[Yos Riady]

I want to use the thin middleware layer for my API controllers, but I still need dashboard views for my application. 

I have a Base APIController:

class API::APIController < ApplicationController

end

Which provides some base auth methods to actual API resource controllers:

class API::V1::AgentsController < API::APIController

end

Using rails-api, I'd like to still generate views for my other controllers, yet still benefit from the thinner middleware for my API Controllers, so can I do the following:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
end

class API::APIController < ActionController::API
end

All of my non-API controllers will simply inherit from ApplicationController and be able to generate views as per normal, while my API controllers enjoy better performance. Would this work?

Thanks for the advice.

[Yos Riady]

I forgot to mention that this would mean that the project is generated by normal Rails, with rails-api gem installed.

[Carlos Antonio da Silva]

I'd not recommend using rails-api if your application is serving as a webapp for example, it's meant to be used by api-only apps, because it changes the app middleware, which would affect every request. Just go with Rails and you'll be fine.

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[Benjamin Fleischer]

There's no rule that says you can't have ApplicationController < ActionController::Base and APIController < ActionController::API in the same application.... or that you even need

rails-api if your app has the full rails stack.  Though I think you should pick one, since they both define Rails::Application https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api/blob/67115bc06ee388db5b8e70822553db686745097c/lib/rails-api/application.rb#L5-L6 https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/fd9169ff7e74c4a652886a6df259dabc5962802e/railties/lib/rails/application.rb#L80 and note that Rails api is being merged into Rails 5 https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/19832

And some practical code:

https://blog.codelation.com/rails-restful-api-just-add-water/

later

-Benjamin

[Samnang Chhun]

Currently, here what I do in my project to get it supports for both:

# Gemfile
gem 'rails-api', require: false


# app/controllers/api/v1/base_controller.rb
require 'rails-api/action_controller/api'

class API::V1::BaseController < ActionController::API
  ...
end

- Samnang

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