Pliny

An opinionated toolkit for writing excellent APIs in Ruby.

Description

Pliny helps Ruby developers write and maintain excellent APIs.

It bundles the best patterns, libraries and practices we've seen after writing a lot of APIs.

Code Quality Rank: L5

Monthly Downloads: 1,495

Programming language: Ruby

License: MIT License

Tags: API Builder    

Latest version: v0.29.0

README

Pliny

Pliny helps Ruby developers write and maintain excellent APIs.

It bundles the best patterns, libraries and practices we've seen after writing a lot of APIs.

Resources

• Documentation
• Mailing list

Getting started

Install gem:

$ gem install pliny

And initialize your new API app:

$ pliny-new myapp
$ cd myapp && bin/setup

Pliny bundles generators to help you get started:

$ bundle exec pliny-generate model artist
created model file ./lib/models/artist.rb
created migration ./db/migrate/1408995997_create_artists.rb
created test ./spec/models/artist_spec.rb

$ bundle exec pliny-generate mediator artists/creator
created mediator file ./lib/mediators/artists/creator.rb
created test ./spec/mediators/artists/creator_spec.rb

$ bundle exec pliny-generate endpoint artists
created endpoint file ./lib/endpoints/artists.rb
add the following to lib/routes.rb:
  mount Endpoints::Artists
created test ./spec/endpoints/artists_spec.rb
created test ./spec/acceptance/artists_spec.rb

$ bundle exec pliny-generate migration fix_something
created migration ./db/migrate/1395873228_fix_something.rb

$ bundle exec pliny-generate schema artists
created schema file ./schema/schemata/artist.yaml
rebuilt ./schema/schema.json

To test your application:

$ bundle exec rake

Or to run a single test suite:

$ bundle exec rspec spec/acceptance/artists_spec.rb

Generators

$ bundle exec pliny-generate

Commands:
  pliny-generate endpoint NAME    # Generates an endpoint
  pliny-generate help [COMMAND]   # Describe available commands or one specific command
  pliny-generate mediator NAME    # Generates a mediator
  pliny-generate migration NAME   # Generates a migration
  pliny-generate model NAME       # Generates a model
  pliny-generate scaffold NAME    # Generates a scaffold of endpoint, model, schema and serializer
  pliny-generate schema NAME      # Generates a schema
  pliny-generate serializer NAME  # Generates a serializer

Rake tasks

Pliny adds common Rake tasks to help maintain your app:

rake db:create        # Create the database
rake db:drop          # Drop the database
rake db:migrate       # Run database migrations
rake db:rollback      # Rollback last database migration
rake db:schema:dump   # Dump the database schema
rake db:schema:load   # Load the database schema
rake db:schema:merge  # Merges migrations into schema and removes them
rake db:seed          # Seed the database with data
rake db:setup         # Setup the database
rake schema           # Rebuild schema.json

Commands

And provides the following commands:

$ foreman start                             # Starts server
$ foreman run bin/console                   # IRB/Pry console
$ foreman run bin/run 'puts "hello world"'  # Run automated code

(hint: don't forget foreman run in development)

Updating

Use pliny-update to update the Pliny app in the current directory.

This not only bumps the version dependency, but also applies any changes that happened in the template app (for instance: new initializer, tweaks in the base endpoint, etc).

Development

Run tests:

$ bundle install
$ createdb pliny-gem-test
$ rake

Meta

Created by Brandur Leach and Pedro Belo.

MIT licensed.