For API Deployments

[toobulkeh]

We've had a few projects recently that use rails API-only. Since rails-api is merged into rails (still coming soon), and your guides now have recommendations in regards to API specs, it might be worthwhile to add some flags to suspenders to automate those types of projects.

Would that be in-scope for suspenders?

[mcmire]

I would love it if you could use Suspenders to create an API-only app. An API app is more than just creating a Rails app with --api-only, though -- it's also the tools that help you build that API. And as far as I know, we have yet to come to agreement on what tools we would want (although I'm pretty sure those of us that have been on projects involving APIs have opinions).

So what I think we need first is to decide on a core set of tools. We discussed some of that in thoughtbot/guides#365.

Internally, we create a card in a special Trello board we reserve for project experiments, and someone will try out a tool on a project for a while and report back later on whether the experiment was a success or failure. We probably need to go through some of the options that were mentioned in the PR above and do just that.

[tute]

As stated in #706, after #676, we'll be able to solve this with generators, which might live in a separate extension project. Will close this issue, and we can continue discussing in 706. Thanks!

[toobulkeh]

It sounds like JSON-API is the API Spec of choice for Thoughtbot then. Is that correct?

[tute]

It sounds like JSON-API is the API Spec of choice for Thoughtbot then. Is that correct?

Replied in #706 (comment).

[anhari]

Maybe a dumb question, but can you explain what you mean by being able to solve this with generators?

[tute]

Can you explain what you mean by being able to solve this with generators?

See PRs introducing behavior as generators:

• Introduce a stylesheet_base generator #767
• A static page generator #676