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Rapidash

Rapidash is an opinionated core for you to build a client for your API on. The goal is to define a standard way that developers can quickly write a client for the consumption of their RESTful API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rapidash'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rapidash

Usage

Resources

Resources can be defined as follows:

class Users < Rapidash::Base
end

The URL of the resource will be inferred from the class name. In this case Users. If you want to override that, you can with the url method.

class Users < Rapidash::Base
  url :members  # or url "members" is also supported
end

Resources can exist inside other resources. For example, on Github, a user has repositories. The following could be how you build the resources:

class Repos < Rapidash::Base
end

class Users < Rapidash::Base
  resource :repos
end

Root elements

A root element can be set for create and post actions

class Posts < Rapidash::Base
end

client.posts.create!({:post => {:name => "a post"}})

With a root element, the code would look like this:

class Posts < Rapidash::Base
  root :post
end

client.posts.create!(:name => "a post")

Client

The main thing a client must do is define a method, oauth and http are currently supported. You can also define resources which links a resource as defined above to the client.

class Client < Rapidash::Client
  method :oauth
  resource :users
  use_patch # This will use PATCH when updating instead of POST
  extension :json #Append the extension fo the urls
end

OAuth provides an initialize method which you can see in the Facebook client example.

Currently when using the HTTP method, you will need to define your own initialize method to set the site in use.

Making calls

client = Client.new
client.site = "http://example.com/"
client.users                                            #Returns an instance of Users
client.users!                                           #Will make a call to "http://example.com/users.json
client.users!(1)                                        #Will make a call to http://example.com/users/1.json
client.users!(params => {:page => 1}})                  #Will make a call to http://example.com/users.json?page=1
client.users.create!({:user => {:name => "Gazler"}})    #POST requst to /users.json
client.users(1).update!({:user => {:name => "Gazler"}}) #PUT or PATCH requst to /users.json
client.users(1).delete!                                 #DELETE requst to /users.json

Example Clients

Facebook

require 'rapidash'

class Me < Rapidash::Base
end

class Facebook < Rapidash::Client
  method :oauth
  resource :me
end

client = Facebook.new({
  :site => "https://graph.facebook.com",
  :uid => "YOUR_ID",
  :secret => "YOUR_SECRET",
  :access_token => "YOUR_TOKEN"
})
p client.me!.first_name #Gary

Github

require 'rapidash'

class Repos < Rapidash::Base

class Users < Rapidash::Base
  resource :repos
end

class Github < Rapidash::Client
  method :http
  resource :users
  site "https://api.github.com/"
end

client = Github.new
p client.users!("Gazler").name           #Gary Rennie
p client.users("Gazler").repos![0].name  #Githug

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request