Chapter 14. Designing an API
This chapter covers
- Creating JSON responses using ActiveModel::Serializers
- Creating an API namespace
- Request testing and using HTTParty for manually interacting with your API
- Responding appropriately to common API errors
It’s becoming more and more apparent that if you have an application of any significance, you’re going to need an application programming interface, or API. Some applications are only an API. ProgrammableWeb (www.programmableweb.com/), a blog that keeps track of the API space, has a directory of APIs, and at the time of writing, there are 13,628 being tracked. By the time you read this, there could be over 15,000 listed. That’s a lot of APIs!
In this chapter, we’ll compare a few different ...
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