Skeleton for new Rails 5 application for REST API

This simple application includes Ruby/Rails technology which we use at Flatstack for new REST API projects. Application currently based on Rails 5 stable branch and Ruby 2.5.1

What's included

Application gems:

• active_model_serializers - resource serializers
• decent_exposure for DRY controllers
• health_check - health check endpoint
• interactor – encapsulates business logic
• kaminari for pagination
• knock – seamless JWT authentication
• puma as Rails web server
• rack-cors for CORS
• responders - DRY controllers
• rollbar for exception notification

Development gems

• brakeman - static analysis security vulnerability scanner
• bullet - kill n+1 queries and unused eager loading
• bundler-audit - patch-level verification for gems
• dotenv - load environment variables from .env
• letter_opener - preview E-Mails in the browser instead of sending
• rails-erd - generate a diagram based on application's AR models
• seedbank - seeds on steroids

Testing gems

• factory bot - create test data
• faker - generate fake data
• rspec api documentation - generate pretty API docs
• rspec - awesome, readable isolation testing
• shoulda matchers - frequently needed Rails and RSpec matchers

Non standard initializes

• active_model_serializer.rb - setup serializers for REST API
• bullet.rb - setup Bullet to catch up N+1
• cors.rb - setup whitelist of domains to allow cross-origin resource sharing
• health_check.rb - setup Health Check endpoint
• rollbar.rb - setup Rollbar

Scripts

• bin/setup - build Docker image and prepare DB
• bin/server - to run server locally
• bin/ci - runs RSpec tests and quality tools
• bin/doc - generates API documentation

Quick start

Clone application as new project with original repository named "rails-base-api"

git clone git://github.com/fs/rails-base-api.git --origin rails-base-api [MY-NEW-PROJECT]

Create your new repo on GitHub and push master into it. Make sure master branch is tracking origin repo.

git remote add origin git@github.com:[MY-GITHUB-ACCOUNT]/[MY-NEW-PROJECT].git
git push -u origin master

Run setup script

bin/setup

Make sure all test are green

bin/ci

Do not forget to update this file!

mv doc/README_TEMPLATE.md README.md
# update README.md
git commit -am "Update README.md"