/acts_as_api

makes creating XML/JSON responses in Rails 3 easy and fun

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acts_as_api ↑

acts_as_api makes creating XML/JSON responses in Rails 3 easy and fun.

Introduction ↑

acts_as_api enriches the models and controllers of your app in a rails-like way so you can easily determine how your API responses should look like:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  acts_as_api

  api_accessible :name_only do |template|
    template.add :first_name
    template.add :last_name
  end

end

A nice introduction about acts_as_api with examples can be found here:

fabrik42.github.com/acts_as_api

Features: ↑

  • DRY templates for your api responses

  • Easy but very flexible syntax for defining the templates

  • XML, JSON and JSON-P support out of the box, easy to extend

  • Minimal dependecies (you can also use it without Rails)

  • Does not rely on ActiveRecord (can be used with other ORMs like Mongoid)

  • Supports multiple api rendering templates for a models. This is especially useful for API versioning or for example for private vs. public access points to a user’s profile.

Requirements: ↑

  • ActiveModel (>= 3.0.0)

  • ActiveSupport (>= 3.0.0)

  • Rack (>= 1.1.0)

Links ↑

Downwards Compatibility ↑

Note that upgrading to 0.3.0 will break code that worked with previous versions due to a complete overhaul of the lib. For a legacy version of this readme file look here: github.com/fabrik42/acts_as_api/wiki/legacy-acts_as_api-0.2-readme

LICENSE: ↑

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2010 Christian Bäuerlein

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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