#322 RABL

Thank you for making this! I'm a big fan of the RABL project and think they do an excellent job.

Also. Woot first comment.

I tried this..but seem to be getting a weird error:

Completed 406 Not Acceptable in 9ms...any ideas?

I'm using rails 3.0.5...

Thanks for the episode on RABL.

It would be nice to have JSON output to be formatted in the casts. What about using https://github.com/rfletcher/safari-json-formatter ?

Is it possible to create something like this:

{
  message: "...",
  data: [{"array_of_records": "from_db"}],
  meta: "..."
}

Where message and meta - is custom keys (not in AR). And all data goes under data key?

Thanks for another great episode!

Have you had a look at https://github.com/josevalim/active_model_serializers

Glad to see more people talking about json templating for building apis. Here's an alternative to rabl that we wrote at Zaarly called bldr https://github.com/ajsharp/bldr

Being forced to install a bloated (120+m) DivX player just to watch my beloved RailsCasts is not making me happy. It's probably not your doing, but please pass along the disgruntlement of at least one (and probably many more) viewers about this HUGE step backward by Sublime

Very nice Episode!
It would be nice if you could easily customize the xml output with CDATA for special characters :)

first off: I am using rails 2.1.1 and ruby 1.8.7. I have the gem installed so I'm pretty sure that is all setup.

But here is my issue:

1. I am building an API, and have defined specific routes for each API function. an example of one is:

map.ipad_push '/api/ipad/v1/push/user/:user_id.:format', :controller => 'api', :action => 'push'

I have my api_controller.rb, and an action defined in it called "push"

in views/api i have file push.json.rabl

But when I try to view the json, I get the "Missing template api/push.json.erb in view path /Users/pwgustafson/Desktop/HitFix/hitfix2/app/views"

I was able to get this working in another rails 3 app, so I'm curious if there might be some basic thing I'm doing wrong to get this working.

@Ryan: excellent RailsCast, as always!

the following article from RABL's author Nathan Esquenazi is very interesting, and may be a good addition to the references section:

If you're using to_json, you're doing it wrong

I know this is a few weeks old - but this railscast has been as indispensable as the casts on backbone. Thank you for showing me what I needed to use before I even realized it.

I WISH I knew about this when I wrote my first API. I overrode to_json in all my models and WOW this would be so much better. Thanks for the awesome screencast.

I'm on the third iteration of an alpha release for a system that, by 1.0, has been publicly committed to implementation as a service-component architecture. What I've got now is the result of a series of increasingly rushed three-steps-forward-two-back iterations, with the apps mostly breaking their faces against data formatting/communication over the wire.

The effort has been going on for some four months now. The first iteration used Grape around a couple of core components. Since we lost half our development staff, those components have been subsumed into the "traditional" Rails apps that now exist.

I just spent a couple of hours poking around with a greenfield prototype using RABL and got functionality working that took the then-larger team almost two weeks to get right.

I'll definitely be following the RABL project and making use of it in future. Thanks for the as-always excellent Railscast, Ryan! My Pro subscription is some of the best-spent money I can think of lately!

I am trying to use RABL with a model structure using inheritance. I fail setting up a matching template.
Maybe you can take a look here.

I need a litte help.

Where is the rigth place to define the server's address for a remote json ?

tks.

Thanks for the video. It's awesome.

Is is possible to store the json output as variable value, apart from displaying it in a view?

Is this current best practice or is https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers the way to go these days?

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Thanks for the episode.

Quite nice post actually.