I know that Rails has some tools on board to create a REST API. However, concepts like HATEOS aren't supported out of the box.
I googled around for Gems that are filling the gap. The most complete Gem I found is Restfulie (https://github.com/caelum/restfulie). But I am not complete convinced about Restfulie and the project looks abandoned. Hence, I am looking for good alternatives to Restfulie.
What's the best Gem to create a REST API for Rails?
Popular choices are RABL and Roar / roar-rails.
I personally like Roar better because it allows you to consume your representations which is a bit harder with RABL. On the other hand, it's concepts are still in flux so things still tend to change.
Grape is worth a try.
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I've read through https://github.com/apotonick/roar and it seems like a lot of thought has been put into ROAR. But in the context of a fairly standard Rails-powered JSON API that uses jbuilder, I'm still not able to immediately see what benefits ROAR provides.
What am I missing?
Within a Rails project, you should do as much as possible to stick with the built-in solution, but outside a choice is mandatory. Personally one aspect that I love about ROAR is the versioning for the API.
There is one good post I like that might help you:
http://devblog.reverb.com/post/47197560134/hal-siren-rabl-roar-garner-building-hypermedia
It might not be an straight answer, but it explains the problems you should be aware of when choosing a JSON API generator.
I am a newbie in ROR developement. I am trying to create my own application with the help of Ruby on Rails tutorial 2nd edition. I made many reseaches. I need your comments about devise or any other authentications system or as the book offers us to write our own authentication systems.
What are your ideas? Is it wasting time to write your own authentication system?
i'm quite new to RoR myself but i used Devise so far (and according to the book i'm currently reading it is worth it).
You could use the Railscasts about Devise if you want an introduction to it:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/209-introducing-devise
And as it is quite easy to learn and well featured i'd say it is pretty overkill to write your own.
I am a huge advocate of Devise, and also of not recreating the wheel. My rebuttal question would be why go through the trouble of creating your own authentication solution, when in just a few short bash commands, Devise will be installed and running. The configuration options alone are enough to choose Devise, not to mention that almost every part of the engine has the ability to be overridden with your own code.
There are hundreds of blog posts out there that can easily get you started with running Devise. As always with any gem, I would recommend starting out with browsing the source code, and then turning to the wiki for the answers that you seek. As #krizz mentioned, Ryan Bates' Railscasts are always a great place to turn when you need to see it setup.
And of course, you can always turn back here to the stack when you get stuck.
What's the best way of AB Testing new features and keeping track of the results?
Regards,
Donald
There's a gem called Vanity which is designed for A/B testing in Rails (and appears to work in Rails 3).
Here's a tutorial on Vanity.
I've just released a gem that integrates the Google Analytics Experiments API with Rails. It is pretty full-featured and the reporting is right in Google Analytics. It uses a bandit algorithm, allows you to specify a subset of the audience to test and more.
https://github.com/dlangevin/gxapi_rails
I've personally used split and I've found it to be quite nice, especially with respect to the dashboard it provides for you.
I'm looking for a forum solution for a website I'm building. I'm using Devise and Rails 3, so does there exist any pluggable solutions?
What about 3rd party services?
The goal of Community, is to provide a simple, and easy to setup forum application without having to dictate how your site it setup.
https://github.com/gitt/community
You could build one yourself, you'll be surprised that it's not that time consuming, and you won't have to deal with the bloat that 3rd party solutions might come with. Here is a good place to start.
Savage Beast, Altered Beast and rBoard may be good starting points, but note that they are only for Rails 2.x afaics.
Note: rBoard has a Rails 3 branch but I have no idea how stable that is.
In Rails 2 I know of a few plugins for enumerations such as acts_as_enumeration and enumerate_by but they don't seem to be maintained or updated for Rails 3. Preferably, the solution would store the enum in memory rather than a database for performance reasons but really any method would be useful since it can always be cached.
I did find enumerated_attribute that claims to work with Rails 3 but quite honestly I don't like the API and was hoping for another good solution.
(Sorry for only linking to the one plugin but it won't let me post more than one link until I get a higher reputation)
I am currently using lwe's simple_enum which seems to be actively developed and stores values on memory or if you prefer on a table.
If you're using DataMapper as your ORM have a look at dm-types which includes an Enum type.
There is this gem, enumerate_it, it has good documentation and very well done!