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Building your own API with Rails

Name: Building your own API with Rails
Price: 59 USD
Author: Alexandre Rousseau

Delve into creating, optimizing, and securing a Rails API from scratch. Gain insights into building a full-fledged, efficient Rails API, ready for immediate use.

4.5

77 lessons

14h 45min

Created by Alexandre Rousseau

What's included

77 lessons across 11 modules
8 quizzes with instant feedback
AI Tutor on every lesson

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What You'll Learn

Learn how to create an application using Rails
Learn about the MVC (Model View Controller) architecture and how it is used in Rails
Learn how to create and expose endpoints of a Rails API
Learn securing the endpoints of a Rails API using user authorization
Learn to optimize a Rails application

Learning Roadmap

77 Lessons8 Quizzes

Getting Started

Get familiar with building a RESTful API using Rails, focusing on a marketplace app.

Introduction to the Course

The Marketplace Application

Initializing the App

The API

Walk through API structure, routes configuration, and versioning for designing a scalable Rails API.

API Structure

Routes Constraints and Namespaces

Versioning the API

Quiz Yourself: The API

User Model

12 Lessons

Master the steps to create, manage, and test a robust user model in Rails API.

Authenticating the Users

8 Lessons

Break down the steps to set up user authentication with JWT tokens in Rails APIs.

User's Products

12 Lessons

Take a closer look at creating, validating, and testing a User's Products in Rails API.

Building JSON

11 Lessons

Focus on optimizing API output, creating efficient serializers, handling associations, and implementing search functionalities.

Placing Orders

9 Lessons

Learn how to improve managing orders, validating models, building endpoints, and sending confirmations.

Improving Orders

6 Lessons

Step through improving order management by handling product quantities, stock validation, and accurate total calculations.

Optimizations

9 Lessons

Get started with pagination, API caching, solving N+1 queries, and enabling CORS for better optimization.

10.

Wrap up

2 Lessons

Master the steps to test your Rails API and reflect on your learning journey.

11.

Appendix

Find out about setting up a development environment for Rails API development.

Setting Up a Development Environment

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

About this course

WHY I WROTE THIS COURSE

This course is a comprehensive tutorial that will teach you the best way to build your next API with Rails. You’ll learn to create a Rails API from scratch and to optimize and secure a Rails API. By the end of this course, you’ll have a full-fledged Rails API ready to be used.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexandre Rousseau

Every Educative resource is designed by our team of ex-MAANG software engineers and PhD computer science educators — subject matter experts who've shipped production code at scale and taught the theory behind it. No videos, no fluff.

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