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How should I build this Rails REST JSON API for mobile phone access? [closed]
Assume I have to build a blog with REST JSON API with these entities:
- Category (with name and description).
- Blog entry (with title, content and published).
- Comment (with content).
Constraints:
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android
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Multiple IDs show action with CanCan authorization
CanCan has worked great for me thus far with standard RESTful resources such as /users, /users/:id, /users/:id/pictures. However, we have a requirement that we allow multiple ids be passed in. For ...
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Rails validating post request
Is there a gem or easy way to validate a API post request? For example I am always expecting a field to be either present or always a string and if it is not to ignore the request all together.
Or ...
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Extra Edit screens for the same resource
I have a resource "Providers" that has a settings screen. I want to break that out into several screens for usability / design reasons. How should I manage that in my controllers to maintain good ...
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Is there a Rails plugin to help me build an API for ember-data's RESTAdapter?
So I'm going to embark on a project using ember-data, which tells me
The REST adapter assumes that the URLs and JSON associated with each model are conventional; this means that, if you follow the ...
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How make “ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper#current_page?” works with request method?
I have menu with current page highlighting items, implemented via current_page? method
def cp(*paths)
'current' if paths.any? { |path| current_page?(path) }
end
Menu items look like this
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How to post array values via curl?
I like to test an API backend which is designed as shown in the following example:
http://localhost:3000/api/v1/shops/1.json
The JSON response:
{
id: 1,
name: "Supermarket",
products: [
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What should I render when destroying a record?
I have an API that lets you destroy an object. The part I'm not sure on is what JSON should be rendered after the record has been destroyed. Here are a couple options, but I'm not sure what the best ...
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How to write a duplicate record method in Ruby on Rails?
In my Rails app I have an invoices_controller.rb with these actions:
def new
@invoice = current_user.invoices.build(:project_id => params[:project_id])
@invoice.build_item(current_user)
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Rails RESTful routes with a composite key
I have an atypical Rails application that needs a table to be indexed by a composite key of two values. Which is the correct way using a RESTful service to add a composite key of two values?
If ...
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Maintaining REST with namespaced models in Rails
I'm building an online store and thought it best to namespace the various composite parts. Products, Orders, Users etc...
I currently have the Product Module defined and laid out as follows
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How to Route Multiple Pages to 'Edit' a Users Account Information (Rails)
I currently have a Ruby on Rails application with a typical User model. I would like to allow users to edit their own account information, and change their email or password. However, I would like to ...
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Industrial System using Ruby on Rails for management and automation, is it possible? [closed]
The idea is to develop a system to an industry that perform services on products. (for example painting and polishing)
The service order of every product is created when the client arrives on the ...
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Clear up some concepts to provide a RESTful Web service with Rails 3
I want to build a Rails application that expose a RESTful web service used by a mobile application. I wanna create something maintainable and scalable, but I'm a little bit confused about best ...
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Internal server error when adding HTTP Basic Authentication to rails with Devise
I am adding a REST interface to a working RAILS 3.2 app that uses Devise. I enabled HTTP Basic Authentication and have my app sending the correct email and password. Using PUTS statements I see the ...
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RESTful method for representing a has_one relationship with no identifier
I currently have a service with a REST API which is pretty standard:
show: GET /users/1
update: PUT /users/1
...and some has_many relationships which follow the same convention:
show: GET ...
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Keeping REST on nested resource in Rails
I'm currently torturing myself with an implementation conundrum. I have a structure akin to a simple Post -> Comments nested resource relationship.
I have the facility for showing context specific ...
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GET request inside POST API endpoint interferes with 'respond_with'
After reading Stored Android Accounts for Authentication of Rails + Devise Accounts I'm trying to setup a Rails 3 API endpoint that can verify an OAuth obtained token through a GET request to Google.
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Routing with regex condition in Rails 2
In my routes.rb file, I've defined these routes:
map.with_options(:controller => "review") do |review|
review.review_index "/review/:page", :action => "index", :defaults => {:page ...
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Rails - Creating a model and its nested resources
I'm trying to create a Gallery model and its has_many associations by passing the following to create.
[
{
"title":"Some Titler",
"description":"",
"date":"18-3-2012",
...
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Breaking the Rails-flavored REST
Rails beginner here.
I'm trying to create a web application dashboard that shows system statistics like CPU, memory, disk usage, etc.
No databases will be used, so I suppose models won't be ...
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How can I query active record models in context of a nested route, DRY style
I like my controller to use all ids that the request URL contains without making the controller route specific.
My route:
...
resources :users do
resources :properties
end
...
My ...
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Rails route accetping http and json requests
I'm creating a REST api using rails, and I have a simple question related to Routes and how to accept requests for my api.
In my routes file I have the following code:
namespace :api do
namespace ...
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Rails service objects
I have a rails application in which I want to achieve the following:
a) Create a data access layer/service that hides the ORM models and exposes higher level methods (instead of ORM specific methods ...
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Rails json request from RESTful api how to render for view
I have another rails app serving up a RESTful JSON API. I'm able to test the response via the curl request below (you can also see an example of the first item it returns).
I can figure out how ...
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Restful route design for adding item to container
My cart can have many folders. Those can be nested, but are always displayed as a whole. I want to design an interface to add new item to the folder.
My plan is to have a button for folder, after ...
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Rails respond to restful input via html
We have a Rails app where we are adding Workorders via the Restful interface.
This is the controller code:
# POST /workorders
# POST /workorders.json
def create
@workorder = ...
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rails, implementing a master detail yet staying RESTful
Say that I have a Customers and an Orders tables, where each Customer may have many Orders.
Since in rails we are encouraged to represent these resources in a RESTful style, each of our resources, ...
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Access REST response data
I'm receiving a string response using the rest-client gem and semrush api. How do I access specific data from a string?
Response:
keyword;Position;Previous Position;Search Volume;CPC;Url;Traffic ...
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Rails rest put HTTP/1.0 501 Not Implemented
I need to use RESTful input to my Rails app. First I'm trying to just understand REST and I'm using WizTools RestClient on my MAC for testing.
I have a table called priorities and I'm trying to ...
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Calling REST index action from Dashboard
Hello Everyone I have a model 'Project' in my rails application which is a REST resource.
I also have a non REST controller 'home' with a method 'dashboard'.
I want the dashboard to render all the ...
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How do i do POST in rails?
The following is my controller code and the view code . The view displays a list of games and i would like to add a game to the existing table in the same view. I'm having some issues with the post ...
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Rails routes not matching 'new' pattern with RESTFul routes
I got this error:
No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"video_publications", :campaign_id=[...]
With this url:
/campaigns/514be3834413790249000025/video_publications/new
I have ...
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Trying to make urls of the form <base_url>/boards/<name> in ruby on rails and getting errors
I am using ruby on rails to make a simple social networking site that includes different message boards for each committee of a student group. I want the url structure for each board to look like ...
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Angular and Rails shallow resources
Rails offers a :shallow option to nested resources, which I rely on, because otherwise I'd have 4 or 5 nested resources, which would be very bad.
Shallow resources look like this:
resources :posts ...
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Rails and BackboneJS destroy model backbone misinterprets response
I am destroying a model in backbone and it sends the correct DELETE request. Everything is fine with the request; I even check in the chrome debugger and under network it says the request has status ...
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Rails Integration with CMS - REST/JSON capabilities/stability of Drupal/Wordpress/BrowserCMS?
We are planning a member directory app in rails that will interface with user accounts and recent posts within a CMS (primarily pulling posts to attach to their directory listing(s)). We are deciding ...
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ActiveResource Double Nesting Issue
I'm using ActiveResource in Rails 3.2.13 to update an object with nested attributes on a remote REST server. My form on the client side looks like this:
= form_for @user, :url => ...
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Custom active_model_serializers with non-standard structure
I have objects, which need to be serialized as JSON.
So instead of this:
[
{"id": 1, "category": "books", "title": "Bible"},
{"id": 2, "category": "books", "title": "HHGTTG"},
{"id": 3, ...
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rails POST on /objects calling index method
Normally in rails, sending a POST to a RESTful controller, say, /orders, calls the #create action. This is what I want to happen. Instead, the #index method gets called. How do I fix this?
The server ...
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How to delete a join table association between two models?
I have the following setup of models and controllers:
Models:
class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :follow_companies, dependent: :destroy
has_many :followers, through: ...
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RESTful API in rails
I am very new to rails and following a tutorial for RESTful API so let me excuse if it is of not very good quality as I am equally a starter for these kind of terminologies as well.
I created a ...
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Rails rest-client put getting 400 bad request
In a Rails app, I need to read a seed number from another application and then update the seed by 1 using a REST interface. I'm using the gem 'rest-client'.
I can read the seed number OK using this:
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Rails REST use url to filter an index
I'm trying to extract JSON records from a Rails app via the REST interface. I'm using RABL to create the JSON. I would like records that are greater than a specified created_at.
In the worequests ...
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Can parameter names in Ruby on Rails be simplified for a REST API?
I am working with a web site created with Ruby on Rails. I am doing the client-side while another developer is working with RoR, for the first time. I am seeing parameter names which include brackets ...
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Rails, 404 or 422?
I have a Rails applicantion whit the next resource: /images. All images have one owner.
For create new image, I do next request to /images:
image_info = { owner_id: '1234', name: 'img1' }
post ...
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Which action to use: PUT or POST
I have resources in routes file:
resources :forwardings
And I need to add the action which will save settings to all items in collection.
The question is which method should I use to implement ...
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Download a file with HTTP “Authorization” header set
I am providing a file upload to a resource in my RESTful API (made with Rails). When you GET /resource/123/attachment the file with corresponding MIME type is sent to the browser. (can be anything .. ...
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Get Content Type of Request
To find the incoming content type, docs say:
request.headers["Content-Type"] # => "text/plain"
But I found by trial-and-error, that doesn't work, but this does:
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Extend AngularJS $resource to map to Rails RESTful Routes (particularly $save to create AND update)
I'd like to map the default AngularJS $resource actions:
'get': {method:'GET'}
'save': {method:'POST'}
'query': {method:'GET', isArray:true}
'remove': {method:'DELETE'}
'delete': ...
