Web APIs with Ruby on Rails

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
This course covers how to develop webAPIs using the Ruby on Rails framework. It covers how to set up an API, create API endpoints and render XML and JSON. It also covers versioning and authentication as well as documentation and testing.

Target Audience
Programmers familiar with the Ruby on Rails framework who want to use Ruby on Rails to create web APIs

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.2

Lesson Objectives

Web APIs with Ruby on Rails

start the course

use the Rails-api Gem

set up a Rails API

add an API to an existing Ruby on Rails project

create an API endpoint for INDEX

create an API endpoint for SHOW

create an API endpoint for CREATE

create an API endpoint for UPDATE

create an API endpoint for DESTROY

render JSON manually

render JSON with the jbuilder gem

render JSON or XML with the rabl gem

render JSON with active_model_serializers

generate XML with XML builder

speed up JSON with the oj Gem

speed up XML with the ox Gem

implement versioning for an Ruby on Rails API

authenticate a web API manually

document a web API with rdoc

document a web API with apipie-rails

implement testing of a web API with RSpec

manually test a Rails API with Postman

test the performance of a Ruby on Rails API with rails-perftest

create an API and API endpoints in a given scenario

Course Number:
pg_rubr_a06_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate