Purpose:

Serve fixtured API responses quickly and easily. Runs a tiny sinatra server that serves static .json files or dynamic .rb files from disk. Control which fixtures are being used at localhost:port/test-panel Great for QA and fast prototyping.

Installation:

From Rubygems:

just gem install json-rigs

From Source:

Check out this repo, cd into it, then

$ bundle install
...
$ gem build json-rigs.gemspec
...
$ gem install json-rigs

Usage:

Make a folder called "fixtures" wherever you'd like to keep your fixtures.

Place .json files inside folders inside the fixtures folder as follows: ./fixtures/[url]/[HTTP method]/[response type].json (e.g. ./fixtures/users/GET/success.json)
Place .rb files in the same manner. .rb files should be of the form:

lambda {|params|
  if params['data']
    hash = {success: true, dynamic: "param 'data' was #{params['data']}"}
  else
    hash = {success: false, error: "param 'data' was missing!"}
  end
  JSON.generate(hash)
}

jrigs start from the folder one level above "fixtures" (e.g., if fixtures is at ~/Code/my-api/fixtures, run jrigs start from ~/Code/my-api)

Choose which fixtures you want active at localhost:3000/test-panel

Use localhost:3000 as if it were your normal API server! E.g., curl localhost:3000/resource will return the contents of ./fixtures/resource/GET/success.json if you chose the success fixture at localhost:3000/test-panel, or ./fixtures/resource/GET/failure.json if you chose the failure fixture, etc.

Debugging: