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https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/fake_api
The fastest way to prototype API in your Rails application
https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/fake_api
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The fastest way to prototype API in your Rails application
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/fake_api
- Owner: igorkasyanchuk
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-01-15T10:34:22.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-02-28T13:16:32.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-14T07:00:45.702Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: api, rails, rails-api, rails-json-api, ruby, ruby-on-rails
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage: https://www.railsjazz.com/
- Size: 4.69 MB
- Stars: 142
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGES
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: MIT-LICENSE
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README
# Fake API
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The **fastest** way to prototype API with most real dummy data, and provide them to other team members.
Instead of creating many new controllers and actions, and sending random data like `"First name #{rand(100)}"` you'll get real data for developing/testing.
Gem has a syntax similar to rails routes, factory bot, and uses faker to generate dummy data.
Features:
* fast API prototyping
* clear and familiar syntax
* Faker for test data generation
* including links to images if needed
* manage cookies, session, headers with fake response
* executes your factories in real-time, so you always get fresh and random data
* has generator
* has standalone mode (see documentation for more details)
## Installation & Usage
Installation process is very simple.
- add `gem 'fake_api'` to the Gemfile
- run `bundle install`
- mount gem in routes.rb `mount FakeApi::Engine => '/api'`
- `rails g fake_api Product`. It will generate factory and routing files.
- edit `app/fake_api/*.rb`, define your routing and factories.
- open `localhost:300/api/projects.json` (see step 5) or `localhost:300/api/projects.xml` (to return XML in API response)
- profit :)
You can keep your routing and factories in many files.
## Examples
Sample of the factory:
```ruby
# app/fake_api/factory.rb
class Factory < FakeApi::Factoring
# Example of User object
# you can see that it will generate link to fake image
factory(:user) do
{
id: rand(100),
first_name: Faker::Name.first_name,
last_name: Faker::Name.first_name,
avatar_url: Faker::Avatar.image(size: '128x128'),
age: rand(100)
}
end
# heare you can put "relations" to other factories
# see "author" node
factory(:project) do
{
id: rand(1_000),
title: Faker::Company.name,
description: Faker::Company.catch_phrase,
type: Faker::Company.type,
author: object(:user)
}
end
# or have factory which contains from the list of Projects and a single user
factory(:complex) do
{
projects: create_list(:project, 2),
user: object(:user)
}
end
end
```
And sample of routing:
```ruby
# app/fake_api/app_routing.rb
class AppRouting < FakeApi::Routing
get('/projects').and_return { create_list(:project, 5) }.with_status(202).with_headers({TOKEN: "SECRET"})
get(%r{/projects/\d+$}).and_return { object(:project) }
post('/projects').and_return { object(:project).merge({created: 'ok'}) }
delete(%r{/projects/\d+$}).and_return { { result: :deleted } }.with_status(333)
post('/auth')
.and_return { { status: "OK" } }
.with_cookies({x: "A"})
.with_session({y: "B"})
.with_headers({token: "C"})
end
```
## Factory Methods
- `create_list(:factory_name, 10)` to create an array of 10 factories.
- `object(:factory_nane)` to return a factory
## Routing Methods
- `get/post/put/patch/delete` to define route
- `and_return` to specify the response. This response will be converted to FORMAT (json, xml, js, csv(for arrays) etc)
- `with_cookies` to list returned cookies
- `with_session` to list changes in session
- `with_headers` to list returned headers
## Standalone mode
Developing standalone version of the gem:
```bash
cd test
rackup -p 3000 -o 0.0.0.0
```
Edit `config.ru` to change example code.
## Standalone mode
This is an example how you can start just fake_api server and define your factories and responses just inside one single file.
Please check example below and instructions how to start fakea_api in standalone mode.
Since this is a rack app it could be just deployed to the server.
```ruby
# start it:
# rackup -p 3000 -o 0.0.0.0
# create file
# config.ru
require 'rubygems'
require 'fake_api/standalone'
factory(:user) do
{
id: rand(100),
first_name: Faker::Name.first_name,
last_name: Faker::Name.last_name,
age: rand(100)
}
end
get('/users').and_return do
create_list(:user, 5)
end
get(%r{/users/\d+$}).and_return do
object(:user)
end
run FakeApi::Standalone.app on: '/api'
```
Theare is only one thing which is not convinient is a need to restart server after code changes.
## TODO
- render ERB?
- exclude from code converage generator and dummy app
- make code coverage 100%
- access controller in the gem?
- reload code in standalone app after code changes in dev mode
## Contributing
You are welcome to contribute.
## License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
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