Building Better APIs in Ruby (and Rails)
I recently presented a lightning talk at Austin on Rails titled “5 ways to build better APIs in Ruby”. Below is the slide deck, along with a coupon code to our book to help with your API design and development.
Get the book, “A Practical Approach to API Design”
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Other Ruby and Rails resources
- Ruby API Framework benchmarks
- ORM instantiation benchmarks
- Twitter discussion on upcoming Sinatra performance improvements
- Use the Roar + Representable gems for JSON serialization
- Heroku Dataclips using PostgreSQL
- RSpec and Cucumber for acceptance testing your APIs in a running container
API Development and Documentation Tools
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Exploration: POSTman Chrome Plugin
- Documentation: RAML/APIDesigner, RunScope
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Debugging: RunScope
- Auth/Management: Layer 7, Apigee, Mashery, 3Scale, Stormpath