Rails Rest API

Project Setup

Install all gems:

$ bundle install

Update the database with new data model:

$ rake db:migrate

Feed the database with default seeds:

$ rake db:seed

Start the web server on http://localhost:3000 by default:

$ rails server

Run all RSpec tests and Rubocop:

$ rake test

Usage

HTTP verbs	Paths	Used for
POST	/register	Create a user
POST	/login	Authenticate a user
GET	/posts	List all posts
GET	/posts/:post_id	Show a single post
POST	/posts	Create a post
PUT	/posts/:post_id	Update a post
DELETE	/posts/:post_id	Delete a post
GET	/posts/:post_id/comments	List all comments of a post
GET	/posts/:post_id/comments/:comment_id	Show a single comment
POST	/posts/:post_id/comments	Create a comment
PUT	/posts/:post_id/comments/:comment_id	Update a comment
DELETE	/posts/:post_id/comments/:comment_id	Delete a comment

Use Case Examples

Authentication

Create a new user:

$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d '{"email": "[email protected]", "password": "testuser123"}' localhost:3000/register

Authenticate a user:

$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d '{"email": "[email protected]", "password": "testuser123"}' localhost:3000/login

On successful login, {"auth_token": <token>} will be returned. This token will be expired after 24 hours.

CRUD

In order to access the posts and comments, add -H 'Authorization: <token>' to the header of every request for CRUD operations.

The create, update and delete actions can only be executed by users authorized on admin. A default admin user is definded in db/seeds.rb. After seeding the database, {"email": "[email protected]", "password": "admin123"} can be used to login as an admin.

Create a new post:

$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d '{"title": "My title", "content": "My content"}' localhost:3000/posts

Create a new comment:

$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d '{"name": "YuKitAs", "message": "My message"}' localhost:3000/posts/1/comments

The name field is optional with default value anonym.

Update an existing post by id:

$ curl -X PUT -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d '{"title": "My new title", "content": "My new content"}' localhost:3000/posts/1

Update an existing comment by id:

$ curl -X PUT -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d '{"name": "YuKitAs", "message": "My new message"}' localhost:3000/posts/2/comments/1

Delete an existing post by id:

$ curl -X DELETE localhost:3000/posts/1

All the comments of this post will be deleted as well.

Delete an existing comment by id:

$ curl -X DELETE localhost:3000/posts/2/comments/1