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Gem Version

Apidoco - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

Easy documentation of REST APIs - Demo.

Screenshots

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Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'apidoco'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Add this line to your routes:

mount Apidoco::Engine, at: "/docs"

How to add authentication

Create a configuration file in initializers e.g. /config/initializers/apidoco.rb and add the following.

Apidoco.auth_name = 'authentication_name'
Apidoco.auth_password = 'authentication_password'
Apidoco.app_name = 'your app name' # This will appear as the HTML title for api_doco pages

Generators

To create a Api documentation file for an action:

rails g apidoco resource

For Eg: ruby

rails g apidoco api/v1/posts

will create the following files by default with sample content

  • docs/api/v1/posts/show.json
  • docs/api/v1/posts/create.json
  • docs/api/v1/posts/update.json
  • docs/api/v1/posts/destroy.json
  • docs/api/v1/posts/index.json

If you need to create Api documention file for actions other than default crud actions, you need to specify the actions for which the files need to be generated

For Eg: ruby

rails g apidoco api/v1/posts download upload

will create the following files with sample content

  • docs/api/v1/posts/download.json
  • docs/api/v1/posts/upload.json

Sample API documentation format

// docs/api/v1/posts/create.json
{
  "published": true,
  "name": "Create",
  "sort_order": 1,
  "end_point": "api/v1/posts/:id.json",
  "http_method": "POST",
  "params": [{
    "key": "post[title]",
    "required": true,
    "type": "String",
    "description": "Title of the post",
    "validations": ["Should be less than or equal to 40 characters"]
  }, {
    "key": "post[content]",
    "required": true,
    "type": "String",
    "description": "Content/Body of the post",
    "validations": ["Should be less than or equal to 300 characters"]
  }, {
    "key": "post[publsihed]",
    "required": true,
    "type": "Boolean",
    "description": "Published status of the post"
  }],
  "header": {
    "Authentication": "Token token=<token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  "examples": [{
    "request_headers": {
      "Authentication": "Token token=<token>",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "request": {
      "post": {
        "title": "Ruby is awesome",
        "content": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec interdum a tellus sed finibus.",
        "published": false
      }
    },
    "response_headers": {
      "Authentication": "Token token=<token>"
    },
    "response": {
      "suceess": true,
      "message": "Successfully created"
    }
  }]
}

// docs/api/v1/posts/update.json
{
  "published": true,
  "name": "Update",
  "sort_order": 2,
  "end_point": "api/v1/posts/:id.json",
  "http_method": "PUT|PATCH",
  "params": [{
    "key": "post[title]",
    "required": true,
    "type": "String",
    "description": "Title of the post",
    "validations": ["Should be less than or equal to 40 characters"]
  }, {
    "key": "post[content]",
    "required": true,
    "type": "String",
    "description": "Content/Body of the post",
    "validations": ["Should be less than or equal to 300 characters"]
  }, {
    "key": "post[publsihed]",
    "required": true,
    "type": "Boolean",
    "description": "Published status of the post"
  }],
  "header": {
    "Authentication": "Token token=<token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  "examples": [{
    "request_headers": {
      "Authentication": "Token token=<token>",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "request": {
      "post": {
        "title": "Ruby is awesome",
        "content": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec interdum a tellus sed finibus.",
        "published": false
      }
    },
    "response_headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "response": {
      "suceess": true,
      "message": "Successfully updated"
    }
  }]
}


//docs/api/v1/posts/delete.json
{
  "published": true,
  "name": "Destroy Post",
  "sort_order": 6,
  "end_point": "api/v1/posts/:id.json",
  "http_method": "DELETE",
  "header": {
    "Authentication": "Token token=<token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  "examples": [{
    "request_headers": {
      "Authentication": "Token token=<token>",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "response": {
      "suceess": true,
      "message": "Successfully destroyed"
    }
  }]
}

Documentation format reference

Key Description Default Example
published Set this to false if you do not want to list this api true --
name Name of the api --- ---
sort_order Order of the api to be listed --- ---
end_point --- --- "end_point": "/posts"
http_method The HTTP method of the API --- "http_method": "GET"
params Parameters to be used --- "params: [{ "key": "post['name']", "required": true, "type": "String", "notes": ["Name or title of the post"], "validations": ["should be less than or equal to 150 characters"] }]"
header headers to be used --- "header: { "Authorization": "Token token=<token>", "Content-type": 'application/json' }"
examples Array of sample requests, responses and their headers --- [{ "request_headers": { "Authorization": "Token token=<token>", "Content-type": 'application/json' }, "request": { "post": { "name": "I was scared" } } }, "response_headers": { "Content-type": 'application/json' }, "response": { "message": "Post was successfully created", "id": 101 } }]

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.


*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Apidoco README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.