mjalvarez / rails_api_base

API boilerplate project for Ruby On Rails 5

Rails API Template

Rails Api Base is a boilerplate project for JSON RESTful APIs. It follows the community best practices in terms of standards, security and maintainability, integrating a variety of testing and code quality tools. It's based on Rails 5 and Ruby 2.3.

Finally, it contains a plug an play Administration console (thanks to ActiveAdmin).

Features

This template comes with:

• Schema
  • Users table
  • Admin users table
• Endpoints
  • Sign up with user credentials
  • Sign in with user credentials
  • Sign out
  • Reset password
  • Get and update user profile
• Administration panel for users
• Rspec tests
• Code quality tools
• API documentation following https://apiblueprint.org/

How to use

1. Clone this repo
2. Install PostgreSQL in case you don't have it
3. Create your database.yml and application.yml file
4. bundle install
5. Generate a secret key with rake secret and paste this value into the application.yml.
6. rake db:create
7. rake db:migrate
8. rspec and make sure all tests pass
9. rails s
10. You can now try your REST services!

Gems

• ActiveAdmin for easy administration
• Annotate for doc the schema in the classes
• Better Errors for a better error page
• Brakeman for static analysis security
• Bullet help to kill N+1
• Byebug for debugging
• DelayedJob for background processing
• Devise for basic auth
• Devise Token Auth for api auth
• Draper for decorators
• Factory Bot for testing data
• Faker for generating test data
• Figaro for handling environment variables
• Haml for the template engine
• Jbuilder for json views
• Letter Opener for previewing a mail in the browser
• Oj for optimized json
• Pry for enhancing the ruby shell
• Puma for the server
• Rack CORS for handling CORS
• Rails Best Practices for rails linting
• Reek for ruby linting
• RSpec for testing
• Rubocop for ruby linting
• Sendgrid for sending mails
• Shoulda Matchers adds other testing matchers
• Simplecov for code coverage
• Webmock for stubbing http requests

Optional configuration

• Set your frontend URL in config/initializers/rack_cors.rb
• Set your mail sender in config/initializers/devise.rb
• Config your timezone accordingly in application.rb.

Api Docs

http://docs.railsapibase.apiary.io

Code quality

With rake code_analysis you can run the code analysis tool, you can omit rules with:

• Rubocop Edit .rubocop.yml
• Reek Edit config.reek
• Rails Best Practices Edit config/rails_best_practices.yml
• Brakeman Run brakeman -I to generate config/brakeman.ignore
• Bullet You can add exceptions to a bullet initializer or in the controller

Configuring Code Climate

1. After adding the project to CC, go to Repo Settings
2. On the Test Coverage tab, copy the Test Reporter ID
3. Replace the current value of CC_TEST_REPORTER_ID on the config.yml file (.circleci/config.yml) with the one you copied from CC

Credits

Rails Api Base is maintained by Rootstrap with the help of our contributors.