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Building your own API with Rails

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.

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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.

This course is a comprehensive tutorial that will teach you the best way to build your next API with Rails. You’ll learn to crea...Show More

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

Learn how to create an application using Rails

Content

77 Lessons8 Quizzes

Getting Started

3 Lessons

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

4 Lessons

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.

Generating the User Model

Migration File

Validating the User Model

Test Our Resources with curl

Quiz Yourself: User Model

Authenticating the Users

8 Lessons

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

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

User's Products

12 Lessons

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

Generating the Product Model

Migration File

Validating the Product Model

Quiz Yourself: Product Model

Building JSON

11 Lessons

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

API Output

Presentation of JSON:API

Serialize User

Serialize Product

Serialize Associations

Theory of the Injection of Relationships

Application of the Injection of Relationships

Retrieve User’s Products

Search for Products

Search Engine

Quiz Yourself: Building JSON

Placing Orders

9 Lessons

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

The Order Model

Validating the Order Model

Send an Order Confirmation Email

Quiz Yourself: Order and Placement Model

Improving Orders

6 Lessons

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

Decrementing Product Quantity

Add quantity to the Placement Model

Extending the Placement Model

Validate Quantity of Products

Updating the Total

Quiz Yourself: Improve Order Placement

Optimizations

9 Lessons

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

Pagination

Paginate Products List

Paginate Orders List

Refactoring Pagination

API Caching

N+1 Queries

Prevention of N + 1 Requests

Activation of CORS

Quiz Yourself: Optimization Techniques

10.

Wrap up

2 Lessons

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

Test the Application

Conclusion

11.

Appendix

1 Lessons

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.

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Alexandre Rousseau

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