Search⌘ K
AI Features
Home
Courses
Building your own API with Rails

Routes Constraints and Namespaces

Explore how to organize Rails API controllers using namespaces and configure route constraints in the routes.rb file. Understand setting default response formats to JSON, enhancing your API structure and manageability.

We'll cover the following...

In this lesson, we will be working on the config/routes.rb file. Specifically, we will set the route constraints and the default response format for each request.

Create an API controller

Let’s start by isolating the API controllers under a namespace.

This is fairly simple process with Rails. First, we have to create a folder under the app/controllers named api. The name is important because that’s the namespace we’ll use to manage the API endpoints’ controllers. We will create this folder using the following ...