Building your own API with Rails

INTERACTIVE COURSE

Building your own API with Rails

Beginner

77 Lessons

14h 45min

Certificate of Completion

AI Explanations

AI Explanations

Building your own API with Rails

92 Playgrounds

8 Quizzes

68 Illustrations

Takeaway Skills

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

Course Overview

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.

Course Content

1

Getting Started

Introduction to the Course

The Marketplace Application Initializing the App

2

The API

API Structure Routes Constraints and Namespaces Versioning the API Quiz Yourself: The API

3

User Model

Generating the User Model Migration File Validating the User Model Unit Tests Password Hash Build Endpoints Show Users Create Users Update Users Destroy Users Test Our Resources with curl Quiz Yourself: User Model

4

Authenticating the Users

Stateless Session JWT Presentation Setting Up the Authentication Token Token’s Controller Create Tokens Logged User Authentication with the Token Quiz Yourself: Authenticating the Users

5

User's Products

Generating the Product Model Migration File Validating the Product Model Unit Tests Product's Endpoints Show Products List Products Create Products Update Products Destroy Products Feed the Database Quiz Yourself: Product Model

6

Building JSON

11 Lessons

7

Placing Orders

9 Lessons

8

Improving Orders

6 Lessons

9

Optimizations

9 Lessons

10

Wrap up

2 Lessons

11

Appendix

1 Lesson

COURSE AUTHOR

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