Top 23 Ruby API Projects

• Grape

  1 9,293 7.3 Ruby

  An opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.

  

  Project mention: 26 most popular Ruby/Rails repositories on GitHub in July-August 2020 | dev.to | 2020-09-05

  Grape is a REST-like API framework for Ruby. It’s designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. 9,200 stars by now

• Hanami

  1 5,436 3.4 Ruby

  The web, with simplicity.

  

  Project mention: A sustainable architecture for Ruby on Rails | reddit.com/r/ruby | 2021-02-25

  Very Clean Architecture inspired. The result is similar to https://hanamirb.org/

• Scout APM

  Sponsored scoutapm.com

  Scout APM - Leading-edge performance monitoring starting at $39/month. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.

• Devise Token Auth

  1 3,132 4.5 Ruby

  Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth.

  Project mention: Devise, The Swiss Army Knife of Rails User Authentication. | dev.to | 2021-02-04

  As a side note, also check out devise_token_auth here

• flipper

  0 2,456 8.7 Ruby

  :dolphin: Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby.

• DuckRails

  0 1,682 0.0 Ruby

  Development tool to mock API endpoints quickly and easily (docker image available)

• rspec_api_documentation

  0 1,371 2.2 Ruby

  Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec

  

• tesla-api

  5 1,332 8.5 Ruby

  🚘 A Ruby gem and unofficial documentation of Tesla's JSON API for the Model S, 3, X, and Y.

  Project mention: Thoughts on renting out your Tesla? | reddit.com/r/teslamotors | 2021-04-04

• grape-swagger

  0 1,001 5.0 Ruby

  Add OAPI/swagger v2.0 compliant documentation to your grape API

  

• versionist

  0 953 0.9 Ruby

  A plugin for versioning Rails based RESTful APIs.

• Version Cake

  0 625 2.8 Ruby

  :cake: Version Cake is an unobtrusive way to version APIs in your Rails or Rack apps

• Spyke

  0 592 2.9 Ruby

  Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner

• rack-app

  0 390 3.6 Ruby

  minimalist framework for building rack applications

  

• feedirss-api

  4 342 2.0 Ruby

  RSS as RESTful. This service allows you to transform RSS feed into an awesome API.

  Project mention: RSS as RESTful API | reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects | 2021-01-22

• api_struct

  0 225 0.0 Ruby

  API wrapper builder with response serialization

  

• datoji

  9 221 5.0 Ruby

  A tiny JSON storage service. Create, Read, Update, Delete and Search JSON data.

  Project mention: Show HN: DatoJi – The cleanest and simplest JSON storage service ever made | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-18

• Flexirest

  0 193 5.2 Ruby

  Flexirest - The really flexible REST API client for Ruby

  

• JSONAPI::Utils

  0 192 0.2 Ruby

  Build JSON API-compliant APIs on Rails with no (or less) learning curve.

• api_guard

  2 164 5.0 Ruby

  JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs

  Project mention: What do you use for user authentication on an API only app? | reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-02-03

  https://github.com/Gokul595/api_guard is a nice little gem for API auth using JWTs. Most of it is honestly not that hard to implement yourself though

• jsonapi.rb

  1 122 4.9 Ruby

  Lightweight, simple and maintained JSON:API support for your next Ruby HTTP API.

  Project mention: What is it like to work with Rails 6 in 2021? | reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-01-22

  - https://github.com/stas/jsonapi.rb

• Pragma

  0 94 0.2 Ruby

  An expressive, opinionated ecosystem for building beautiful RESTful APIs with Ruby. (by pragmarb)

  

• js_from_routes

  3 25 8.3 Ruby

  🛣️ Generate path helpers and API methods from your Rails routes

  Project mention: Path helpers and API methods in JS from your Rails routes | reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-03-16

  You might already be able to achieve that by using Config.withResponse to store data in a Redux store.

• endpoint-flux

  1 19 4.5 Ruby

  Micro framework for dealing with API and endpoints

  Project mention: Endpoint_flux is another gem to deal with endpoints | reddit.com/r/ruby | 2021-03-29

• tokenable-ruby

  3 11 7.9 Ruby

  Tokenable is a Rails gem that allows API-only applications a way to authenticate users. This can be helpful when building Single Page Applications, or Mobile Applications. Works with Devise, Sorcery, has_secure_password, and any other auth system you may want to use.

  

  Project mention: What API auth pattern am I describing here? | reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-02-01

  I built https://github.com/tokenable/tokenable-ruby for exactly this use case.

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