REST API Documentation for Rails
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REST API Documentation for Rails

A complete guide on creating RESTful API Documentation for your Ruby on Rails application.

About the Book

In this book we are going to cover how to use a tool called rswag (along with a few others), which allows us to write rspec tests which can be used to generate our API documentation. The benefit of using tests for our API docs is that if you make changes to your code that effect your API and re-run the specs, the tests should fail, signifying that you need to update the specs. This will ensure that your API documentation is always up to date.

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    • Computers and Programming
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Testing
    • API Design
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About the Author

Blake Erickson
Blake Erickson

HI! I'm Blake Erickson. I've been a software developer since 2009 where I've worked on many different software projects, in many different languages. Currently I love making web apps with Ruby and Javascript.

I write about programming at blake.app and you can follow me on twitter @oblakeerickson.

Table of Contents

    • Introduction
      • Why this book?
    • Getting Started
    • RSwag Setup
    • Redoc Setup
    • GitHub Pages Setup
    • JSON Schema Setup

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