Rails API Template

Rails Api Base is a boilerplate project for JSON RESTful APIs. It follows the community best practices in terms of standards, security and maintainability, integrating a variety of testing and code quality tools. It's based on Rails 6 and Ruby 2.7.

Finally, it contains a plug an play Administration console (thanks to ActiveAdmin).

Features

This template comes with:

• Schema
  • Users table
  • Admin users table
• Endpoints
  • Sign up with user credentials
  • Sign in with user credentials
  • Sign out
  • Reset password
  • Get and update user profile
• Administration panel for users
• Rspec tests
• Code quality tools
• API documentation following https://apiblueprint.org/
• Docker support
• Exception Tracking
• RSpec API Doc Generator

How to use

1. Clone this repo
2. Install PostgreSQL in case you don't have it
3. Run bootstrap.sh with the name of your your project like ./bootstrap.sh my_awesome_project
4. rspec and make sure all tests pass
5. rails s
6. You can now try your REST services!

How to use with docker

1. Have docker and docker-compose installed (You can check this by doing docker -v and docker-compose -v)
2. Modify the following lines in the database.yml file:

default: &default
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  pool: 5
  username: postgres
  password: postgres
  host: db
  port: 5432

1. Generate a secret key for the app by running docker-compose run --rm --entrypoint="" web rake secret, copy it and add it in your environment variables.
2. Update the default database configuration in the config/database.yml file to point to the docker-compose database:
   1. Set username: postgres
   2. Set password: postgres
   3. Set host: db
3. Run docker-compose run --rm --entrypoint="" web rails db:create db:migrate.
   1. (Optional) Seed the database with an AdminUser for use with ActiveAdmin by running docker-compose run --rm --entrypoint="" web rails db:seed. The credentials for this user are: email: [email protected] ; password: password.
4. (Optional) If you want to deny access to the database from outside of the docker-compose network, remove the ports key in the docker-compose.yml from the db service.
5. (Optional) Run the tests to make sure everything is working with: docker-compose run --rm --entrypoint="" web rspec ..
6. Run the application with docker-compose up.
7. You can now try your REST services!

Gems

• ActiveAdmin for easy administration
• Arctic Admin for responsive active admin
• Annotate for doc the schema in the classes
• Better Errors for a better error page
• Brakeman for static analysis security
• Bullet help to kill N+1
• Byebug for debugging
• DelayedJob for background processing
• Devise for basic auth
• Devise Token Auth for api auth
• Dotenv for handling environment variables
• Draper for decorators
• ExceptionHunter for exception tracking
• Factory Bot for testing data
• Faker for generating test data
• Jbuilder for json views
• Letter Opener for previewing a mail in the browser
• Oj for optimized json
• Pagy for pagination
• Pry for enhancing the ruby shell
• Puma for the server
• Pundit for authorization management
• Rack CORS for handling CORS
• Rails Best Practices for rails linting
• Reek for ruby linting
• RSpec for testing
• Rspec API Doc Generator for API documentation
• Rubocop for ruby linting
• Sendgrid for sending mails
• Shoulda Matchers adds other testing matchers
• Simplecov for code coverage
• Webmock for stubbing http requests
• YAAF for form objects

Optional configuration

• Set your frontend URL in config/initializers/rack_cors.rb
• Set your mail sender in config/initializers/devise.rb
• Config your timezone accordingly in application.rb.

Api Docs

https://railsapibasers.docs.apiary.io/

With Rspec API Doc Generator you can generate the docs after writing the acceptance specs.

Just run:

./bin/docs

An apiary.apib file will be generated at the root directory of the project.

Code quality

With bundle exec rails code:analysis you can run the code analysis tool, you can omit rules with:

• Rubocop Edit .rubocop.yml
• Reek Edit config.reek
• Rails Best Practices Edit config/rails_best_practices.yml
• Brakeman Run brakeman -I to generate config/brakeman.ignore
• Bullet You can add exceptions to a bullet initializer or in the controller

Configuring Code Climate

1. After adding the project to CC, go to Repo Settings
2. On the Test Coverage tab, copy the Test Reporter ID
3. Set the current value of CC_TEST_REPORTER_ID in the circle-ci project env variables

Code Owners

You can use CODEOWNERS file to define individuals or teams that are responsible for code in the repository.

Code owners are automatically requested for review when someone opens a pull request that modifies code that they own.

Credits

Rails Api Base is maintained by Rootstrap with the help of our contributors.