What resources do you recommend to learn about Rails APIs?

• Grape

  12 9,837 8.2 Ruby

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

  

I love the Grape gem for building APIs - might be worth considering if you are building something new: https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape

• graphql

  21 5,340 9.8 Ruby

  Ruby implementation of GraphQL

While doing basic REST APIs are sometimes a great solution and super easy (like Grape mentioned in another comment) and much faster - if this is a larger project you might want to check out https://graphql-ruby.org/ ... it makes typical asks of clients like "but I want to know all the schools that user is in and, for each school, it's email, phone and fb" much easier. It also makes fine grained security pretty simple. It's also pretty standard in tons of projects in many different languages.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• sdoc

  21 821 8.7 JavaScript

  Standalone sdoc generator

  

Second most important stop: api.rubyonrails.org

• Sidekiq

  91 12,940 8.9 Ruby

  Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby

  

Jobs or Tasks - https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq

• AppSignal

  8 172 9.0 Ruby

  🟥 AppSignal for Ruby gem

  

Performance/Monitoring - https://appsignal.com/

• Knock

  3 2,089 1.4 Ruby

  Discontinued Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API (by nsarno)

Authentication - https://github.com/nsarno/knock

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