Building your own API with Rails

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77 Lessons

14h 45min

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This course includes

92 Playgrounds

8 Quizzes

This course includes

92 Playgrounds

8 Quizzes

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.

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

What You'll Learn

Learn how to create an application using Rails

Course Content

Getting Started

Introduction to the Course

The Marketplace Application Initializing the App

The API

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

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

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

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

Building JSON

11 Lessons

Placing Orders

9 Lessons

Improving Orders

6 Lessons

Optimizations

9 Lessons

10.

Wrap up

2 Lessons

11.

Appendix

1 Lesson

Course Author

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Anthony Walker

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Emma Bostian 🐞

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Evan Dunbar

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Carlos Matias La Borde

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Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

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Eric Downs

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Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Emma Bostian 🐞

@EmmaBostian

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