Rails APIs

[Craig Read]

Hi Everyone,

Just wondering what people generally use to get data into and out-of a Rails app.

I'm currently using ActiveResource, but want to check out the 'competition'.

Cheers,

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Craig Read

@Catharz

https://github.com/Catharz

http://stackoverflow.com/users/158893/catharz

[Rob Howard]

For getting data out, ActiveModel Serializers is nice (and easy to test):

• https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers
• http://railscasts.com/episodes/409-active-model-serializers?view=asciicast

(... vs using a template renderer like JBuilder, rabl, etc.)

For getting data in... I struggle with this every time. Either I use a client library for the service it's sucking data in from, or something wrapped around Faraday if one doesn't yet exist. I've had a look at Roar, but haven't used it in anger; does anyone have any experience with it?

- Rob

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[Fred Wu]

RocketPants (made in Australia!): https://github.com/filtersquad/rocket_pants

RailsAPI: https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api

[Craig Read]

Thanks Fred & Rob.

They (as well as grape) look great for creating the API on the server.

But I'm far more interested in exploring client-side alternatives to ActiveResource that can consume a Restful API.

Faraday looks interesting, but seems to require a lot more code than AR does.

Roar, on the other hand looks like it might be the sort of beast I need.

Would be interested to also hear if others have played with it.

I'll start having a look at it over the weekend.

Cheers,

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[Fred Wu]

RocketPants does have a client layer, just in case you didn't know already. :) It also transforms JSON responses into objects via your own rules (Transformers).