Wurl

An API Playground.

• Great for demonstrating an API's functionality
• Useful for doing story acceptance when developing an API
• Gives pretty-printed output and the browser saves your input making it easy to reuse

Installation

Add the wurl_engine gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'wurl_engine'

Use the built-in rake tasks to copy the migrations to your app and migrate your db:

rake wurl_engine:install:migrations
rake db:migrate

Then in your main app's routes.rb file, add this to make the wurl_engine routable:

mount WurlEngine::Engine => "/wurl", :as => "wurl_engine"

Finally, look at your new API playground by starting your rails server and hitting up the right URL:

http://localhost:3000/wurl

Customize Wurl to Match Your Application

Rails Mountable Engines make it easy to override or extend many parts of Wurl. If you need to override a method, view or partial, create the corresponding file in your main app directory and it will be used instead.

• Controllers & Helpers: See Engines::RailsExtensions::Dependencies for more information.
• Views: now handled almost entirely by ActionView itself (see Engines::Plugin#add_plugin_view_paths for more information)

For instance, you may want to change the overall presentation layout of Wurl to match your app. To do so, simply create a new application.html.haml in the corresponding directory your main app:

_ my-app
\_ app
  \_ views
    \_layouts
      \_ wurl_engine
        \_ application.html.haml

Wurl is inspired by hurl, and the Apigee Console