LOG

• Ruby 2.3

• Rails 5.0

  (On mac:) $ gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries $ gem install rails

Create new API app

$ rails new tutorial-builder-backend --api --database=postgresql --skip-javascript --skip-sprockets -d

Add jsonapi-resources

$ gem 'jsonapi-resources', '^0.8.0.beta2'

Only the new beta version is compatible with rails v5 rc1.

$ rails db:create

Create resource

$ rails g jsonapi:resource sandbox

Create model

rails g model sandbox name source

Update ApplicationController

class ApplicationController < JSONAPI::ResourceController
end

Create SandboxesController

$ rails g controller sandboxes

class SandboxesController < ApplicationController
end

Add route

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  jsonapi_resources :sandboxes
end

Run migration

rails db:migrate

Activate CORS

• Uncomment gem 'rack-cors',

• bundle update

• Uncomment config/initializers/cors

  Rails.application.config.middleware.insert_before 0, Rack::Cors do allow do origins '*'

    resource '*',
      headers: :any,
      methods: [:get, :post, :put, :patch, :delete, :options, :head]
  end
  

  end

Implementing tutorial, lesson and step models

$ rails g model tutorial name lessons:hasMany
$ rails g jsonapi:resource tutorial

Reading

http://blog.arkency.com/2016/02/how-and-why-should-you-use-json-api-in-your-rails-api/ https://github.com/cerebris/jsonapi-resources http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/api_app.html https://blog.codeship.com/building-a-json-api-with-rails-5/