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 7.0 and Ruby 3.1.
Finally, it contains a plug an play Administration console (thanks to ActiveAdmin).
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
- Feature flags support with a UI for management.
- RSpec tests
- Code quality tools
- API documentation following https://apiblueprint.org/
- Docker support
- Exception Tracking
- RSpec API Doc Generator
- Clone this repo
- Install PostgreSQL in case you don't have it
- Run
bootstrap.sh
with the name of your project like./bootstrap.sh --name=my_awesome_project
rspec
and make sure all tests passrails s
- You can now try your REST services!
- Have
docker
anddocker-compose
installed (You can check this by doingdocker -v
anddocker-compose -v
) - Run
bootstrap.sh
with the name of your project and the-d
or--for-docker
flag like./bootstrap.sh --name=my_awesome_project -d
- Run
./bootstrap.sh --help
for the full details.
- Run
- Generate a secret key for the app by running
bin/web rake secret
, copy it and add it in your environment variables. - (Optional) If you want to deny access to the database from outside of the
docker-compose
network, remove theports
key in thedocker-compose.yml
from thedb
service. - (Optional) Run the tests to make sure everything is working with:
bin/rspec .
. - You can now try your REST services!
This template provides a handful of scripts to make your dev experience better!
- bin/bundle to run any
bundle
commands.bin/bundle install
- bin/rails to run any
rails
commandsbin/rails console
- bin/web to run any
bash
commandsbin/web ls
- bin/rspec to run specs
bin/rspec .
You don't have to use these but they are designed to run the same when running with docker or not.
To illustrate, bin/rails console
will run the console in the docker container when running with docker and locally when not.
- 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
- 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
- Flipper for feature flag support
- Jbuilder for json views
- Letter Opener for previewing a mail in the browser
- Oj for optimized json
- Pagy for pagination
- Prosopite to detect N+1 queries
- 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
- 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
.
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.
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 generateconfig/brakeman.ignore
- After adding the project to CC, go to
Repo Settings
- On the
Test Coverage
tab, copy theTest Reporter ID
- Set the current value of
CC_TEST_REPORTER_ID
in the circle-ci project env variables
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.
Rails Api Base is maintained by Rootstrap with the help of our contributors.