Awesome Rails API Gems

A collection of awesome Ruby Gems for Rails API development.

The goal is to help every Rails developer to build an awesome Rails API services.

Rails API Gem List

• API Frameworks
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Serializers
• HTTP clients
• Documentation
• Admin Panel
• File Uploaders
• Logging
• Coding Style
• Testing

API Frameworks

• Grape - Microframework to create REST-ful APIs in Ruby.
• Rails::API - Rails for API-only applications.

Authentication

• devise_token_auth - Token-based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth.
• devise-jwt - JWT token authentication with devise and rails.
• devise-api - This is a convenient way to add authentication to your Ruby on Rails application using the devise gem.
• Doorkeeper - Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

Authorization

• Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes.
• cancancan - The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
• Rolify - Role management library with resource scoping.

Serializers

• ActiveModel::Serializers - Serializer brings convention over configuration to your JSON generation.
• Jbuilder - Jbuilder gives you a simple DSL for declaring JSON structures that beats massaging giant hash structures. This is particularly helpful when the generation process is fraught with conditionals and loops.
• jsonapi-serializer - A fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby (fork of Netflix/fast_jsonapi).
• Blueprinter - Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby.
• rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support.
• Roar - Parse and render REST API documents using representers.

HTTP Clients

• rest-client - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.
• Httparty - Makes http fun again! Ain't no party like a httparty, because a httparty don't stop.
• Faraday - Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.

Documentation

• Grape Swagger - Autogenerate documentation on Grape API.
• Grape Swagger UI - Display documentation that is generated using Grape Swagger.
• apiary - Work together to quickly design, prototype, document and test APIs.
• apiblueprint - API Documentation with powerful tooling.

Admin Panel

• ActiveAdmin - ActiveAdmin is an administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
• RailsAdmin - RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.
• administrate - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.
• Trestle - A modern, responsive admin framework for Ruby on Rails.

File uploaders

• Carrierwave - Provides a simple and extremely flexible way to upload files from Ruby applications
• Shrine - Shrine is a toolkit for handling file attachments in Ruby applications

Logging

• grape_logging - Request logging for Grape.
• Lograge - An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.

Coding Style

• RuboCop - Rubocop is a Ruby static code analyzer. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide.
• Rails Best Practice - Rails best practice is a code metric tool to check the quality of rails codes.
• Metric Fu - A fist full of code metrics.
• Pronto - Quick automated code review of your changes.

Testing

• rspec-rails - Rspec-rails is a testing framework for Rails 5+.
• factory_bot - A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.
• Faker - A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
• Webmock - Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.

Contribute

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