restpack_serializer sample application

This is a sample application which demonstrates the restpack_serializer gem

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getting started

bundle install

rake db:seed

rails server

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Here's some examples of how I plan to use conditional side-loading with restpack_serializer. These examples model Artists -> Albums -> Songs rails app source.

Here is a collection of artists:

http://restpack-serializer-sample.herokuapp.com/api/v1/artists.json

And here are just two:

http://restpack-serializer-sample.herokuapp.com/api/v1/artists.json?ids=1,2

Let's side-load their albums:

http://restpack-serializer-sample.herokuapp.com/api/v1/artists.json?ids=1,2&include=albums

Now we'll side-load albums and songs:

http://restpack-serializer-sample.herokuapp.com/api/v1/artists.json?ids=1,2&include=albums,songs

Notice that as there may be a large number of songs (there are 31 in this case), we're only returning the first page here. I plan to add links to additional pages in the meta data, the URLs will take the following form:

http://restpack-serializer-sample.herokuapp.com/api/v1/songs.json?artist_ids=1,2&page=2

or if we want to include side-loads:

http://restpack-serializer-sample.herokuapp.com/api/v1/songs.json?artist_ids=1,2&page=2&include=artists,albums