#348 The Rails API Gem

Thanks! But video quality is not usual :(

Sorry, I can not see any benefit of this gem.

If you want to build an API, you really don't need the whole thing called Rails. But before stripping down Rails, think what Rails is. Rails is just a kind of collection of some ruby gems.

So it might be easier to use a more lightweight framework like padrino and put inside what you need.

actually, we can use config.middleware.http_only! to let rails run just for api because of removing middlware which not needed.

Great Vid Ryan... I didn't notice any quality issues.

I am curious, would Authentication and Authorization work similar to a full rails application?

I like the idea of a Rails gem, but even after watching this and looking at the project. I'm still a fan of Grape.

Great episode! I would love to see a screencast on how to build a OAuth2 protected API with that ;)

How does this stack up Padrino? As far as performance and ease-of-use?

Just saw that you're using rbenv. I have been thinking of switching from rvm for a while now, but a Railscast on the subject would definitely get me to actually do it. Please do one!

What I like in this gem is ActionController::API which is a bit lighter than ActionController::Base.

What I don't like in this gem is everything else.

If you want to create an API application with some HTML admin panel, you either need to use "normal" Rails and rely on ActionController::Base, possibly stripping it somehow, or use "rails-api", but reenable nearly everything. Both approaches suck. Too bad spastorino haven't decided to include ActionController::API in Rails (or maybe that was impossible) and make "rails-api" nothing more than configuration generator.

I prefer to use Grape mounted in routes, so I get nice DSL behind decent Rails middleware.

Is the asset pipeline available if you use the defaults from rails-api? I want to use rails for backend REST but ember.js for the frontend and include it as part of my js assets.

awesome

what about Grape ?
getting it more interesting

How can I integrate Unfuddle API ??? Will you please give some idea.

for those having 'undefined' tasks on the list in their example, change the addtask function to the following:

function addTask(line) {
$('#tasks').append('' + line.task.name + '');
}

This blog post compares Grape and rails-api performance: http://blog.backupify.com/2013/09/30/a-framework-comparison-of-grape-vs-railsapi-part-1-performance/