Building your own API with Rails

Delve into creating, optimizing, and securing a Rails API from scratch. Gain insights into building a full-fledged, efficient Rails API, ready for immediate use.

Beginner

77 Lessons

14h 45min

Certificate of Completion

Delve into creating, optimizing, and securing a Rails API from scratch. Gain insights into building a full-fledged, efficient Rails API, ready for immediate use.

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This course includes

92 Playgrounds

8 Quizzes

This course includes

92 Playgrounds

8 Quizzes

Course Overview

This course is a comprehensive tutorial that will teach you the best way to build your next API with Rails. You’ll learn to create a Rails API from scratch and to optimize and secure a Rails API. By the end of this course, you’ll have a full-fledged Rails API ready to be used.

What You'll Learn

Learn how to create an application using Rails

Learn about the MVC (Model View Controller) architecture and how it is used in Rails

Learn how to create and expose endpoints of a Rails API

Learn securing the endpoints of a Rails API using user authorization

Learn to optimize a Rails application

What You'll Learn

Learn how to create an application using Rails

Course Content

Getting Started

Get familiar with building a RESTful API using Rails, focusing on a marketplace app.

Introduction to the Course

The Marketplace Application Initializing the App

The API

Walk through API structure, routes configuration, and versioning for designing a scalable Rails API.

API Structure Routes Constraints and Namespaces Versioning the API Quiz Yourself: The API

User Model

Master the steps to create, manage, and test a robust user model in Rails API.

Generating the User Model Migration File Validating the User Model Unit Tests Password Hash Build Endpoints Show Users Create Users Update Users Destroy Users Test Our Resources with curl Quiz Yourself: User Model

Authenticating the Users

Break down the steps to set up user authentication with JWT tokens in Rails APIs.

Stateless Session JWT Presentation Setting Up the Authentication Token Token’s Controller Create Tokens Logged User Authentication with the Token Quiz Yourself: Authenticating the Users

User's Products

Take a closer look at creating, validating, and testing a User's Products in Rails API.

Generating the Product Model Migration File Validating the Product Model Unit Tests Product's Endpoints Show Products List Products Create Products Update Products Destroy Products Feed the Database Quiz Yourself: Product Model

Building JSON

11 Lessons

Focus on optimizing API output, creating efficient serializers, handling associations, and implementing search functionalities.

Placing Orders

9 Lessons

Learn how to improve managing orders, validating models, building endpoints, and sending confirmations.

Improving Orders

6 Lessons

Step through improving order management by handling product quantities, stock validation, and accurate total calculations.

Optimizations

9 Lessons

Get started with pagination, API caching, solving N+1 queries, and enabling CORS for better optimization.

10.

Wrap up

2 Lessons

Master the steps to test your Rails API and reflect on your learning journey.

11.

Appendix

1 Lesson

Find out about setting up a development environment for Rails API development.

Course Author

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