Blog app: add API endpoints project where, as the name indicates, I had to add API endpoints to the already created project in the Social Media website. The endpoints created are for the following actions:

• List all posts for a user.
• List all comments for a user's post.
• Add a comment to a post.
• Implement authentication

Since the original project, authentication was implemented with the devise gem. For the API project authentication was implemented with the jwt gem in a separate way, such that both the original project with the frontend in .erb views and also the API project with the particular endpoints requested lived together. All the API endpoints controller are located in it's respective API namespace folder inside the controller's directory.

All the endpoints for the API project has it's respective tests with RSpec since their development was following TDD.

• Ruby 2.7.6
• Rails 6.0.3.4

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

If not using ruby version 2.7.6, please install with rvm

  rvm install ruby-2.7.6

After installing the ruby version, run the command to use that version of ruby

  rvm use ruby-2.7.0

Install gems with:

bundle install

Install node packages with yarn

yarn install

Setup database with:

   rails db:create
   rails db:migrate

To start the server and use it on the browser, run:

    rails server

Open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.

You can test the API endpoints with an app that sends HTTP Requests such as Postman. Have the app running with

  rails s

The API endpoints are:

For all the Posts of a particular User

GET localhost:3000/api/users/:user_id/posts

For all the Comments on a particular Post for a User

  GET localhost:3000/api/users/:user_id/posts/:post_id/comments

For adding a Comment on a particular Post for a User

  POST localhost:3000/api/users/:user_id/posts/:post_id/comments

To see the swagger documentation, once the app is running with rails s, go to the following URL:

  http://localhost:3000/api-docs/index.html

Download and install google chrome if don't have it to run Capybara. Capybara needs the web drivers to run system tests with browsers

  wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
	

  rspec --format documentation

To run the tests of just the API endpoints, run

rspec spec/controllers

• 👤GitHub: Jose Abel Ramirez
• Linkedin: Jose Abel Ramirez Frontany

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

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A special thanks to the Ruby Team.