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https://github.com/rootstrap/rails_api_base

API boilerplate project for Ruby on Rails 7
https://github.com/rootstrap/rails_api_base

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API boilerplate project for Ruby on Rails 7

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# Rails API Template



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[![Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com/github/rootstrap/rails_api_base/badges/gpa.svg)](https://codeclimate.com/github/rootstrap/rails_api_base)

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Rails API Base is a boilerplate project for JSON RESTful APIs. It follows the community best practices in terms of standards, security and maintainability, integrating a variety of testing and code quality tools. It's based on Rails 7.2 and Ruby 3.3.



Finally, it contains a plug an play Administration console (thanks to [ActiveAdmin](https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin)).



## Features



This template comes with:

- Schema

  - Users table

  - Admin users table

- Endpoints

  - Sign up with user credentials

  - Sign in with user credentials

  - Sign out

  - Reset password

  - Get and update user profile

- Administration panel

- Feature flags support with a UI for management

- Code quality tools

- RSpec tests

- RSpec API Doc Generator

- API documentation following [OpenAPI](https://www.openapis.org/)

- Docker support



## How to use



1. Clone this repo

1. Install PostgreSQL in case you don't have it

1. Install node. The expected node version is defined in `.nvmrc` file.

1. Install yarn. You can run `corepack enable` to install the required yarn binaries. Corepack is already included in newest node versions.

1. Run `bootstrap.sh` with the name of your project like `./bin/bootstrap.sh --name=my_awesome_project`.

1. Run `yarn install` and `yarn build --watch`. This bundles the JS assets in the administration site using [esbuild](https://github.com/evanw/esbuild).

1. `bundle exec rspec` and make sure all tests pass (non-headless mode) or `HEADLESS=true bundle exec rspec` (headless mode)

1. Run `bin/dev`.

1. You can now try your REST services!



## How to use with Docker



1. Have `docker` and `docker-compose` installed (You can check this by doing `docker -v` and `docker-compose -v`)

1. Run `bootstrap.sh` with the name of your project and the `-d` or `--for-docker` flag like `./bin/bootstrap.sh --name=my_awesome_project -d`

    1. Run `./bin/bootstrap.sh --help` for the full details.

1. (Optional) If you want to deny access to the database from outside of the `docker-compose` network, remove the `ports` key in the `docker-compose.yml` from the `db` service.

1. (Optional) Run the tests to make sure everything is working with: `bin/rspec .`.

1. You can now try your REST services!



See [Docker docs](./docs/docker.md) for more info



## Dev scripts



This template provides a handful of scripts to make your dev experience better!



- bin/bundle to run any `bundle` commands.

  - `bin/bundle install`

- bin/rails to run any `rails` commands

  - `bin/rails console`

- bin/web to run any `bash` commands

  - `bin/web ls`

- bin/rspec to run specs

  - `bin/rspec .`

- bin/dev to run both Rails and JS build processes at the same time in a single terminal tab.

  - `bin/dev`



You don't have to use these but they are designed to run the same when running with Docker or not.

To illustrate, `bin/rails console` will run the console in the docker container when running with docker and locally when not.



## Gems



- [ActiveAdmin](https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin) for easy administration

- [Arctic Admin](https://github.com/cprodhomme/arctic_admin) for responsive active admin

- [Annotate](https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models) for documenting the schema in the classes

- [Better Errors](https://github.com/charliesome/better_errors) for a better error page

- [Brakeman](https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman) for security static analysis

- [Byebug](https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/byebug) for debugging

- [DelayedJob](https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job) for background processing

- [Devise](https://github.com/plataformatec/devise) for basic authentication

- [Devise Token Auth](https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth) for API authentication

- [Dotenv](https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv) for handling environment variables

- [Draper](https://github.com/drapergem/draper) for decorators

- [Factory Bot](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot) for testing data

- [Faker](https://github.com/stympy/faker) for generating test data

- [Flipper](https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper) for feature flag support

- [Jbuilder](https://github.com/rails/jbuilder) for JSON views

- [JS Bundling](https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails) for bundling JS assets

- [Knapsack](https://github.com/KnapsackPro/knapsack) for splitting tests evenly based on execution time

- [Letter Opener](https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener) for previewing emails in the browser

- [New Relic](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent) for monitoring and debugging

- [Pagy](https://github.com/ddnexus/pagy) for pagination

- [Parallel Tests](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests) for running the tests in multiple cores

- [Prosopite](https://github.com/charkost/prosopite) to detect N+1 queries

- [Pry](https://github.com/pry/pry) for enhancing the Ruby shell

- [Puma](https://github.com/puma/puma) for the web server

- [Pundit](https://github.com/varvet/pundit) for authorization management

- [Rack CORS](https://github.com/cyu/rack-cors) for handling CORS

- [Rails Best Practices](https://github.com/flyerhzm/rails_best_practices) for Rails linting

- [Reek](https://github.com/troessner/reek) for Ruby linting

- [RSpec](https://github.com/rspec/rspec) for testing

- [RSpec OpenAPI](https://github.com/exoego/rspec-openapi) for generating API documentation

- [Rswag](https://github.com/rswag/rswag) for serving the API documentation

- [Rubocop](https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/) for Ruby linting

- [Sendgrid](https://github.com/stephenb/sendgrid) for sending emails

- [Shoulda Matchers](https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers) for other testing matchers

- [Simplecov](https://github.com/colszowka/simplecov) for code coverage

- [Strong Migrations](https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations) for catching unsafe migrations in development

- [Webmock](https://github.com/bblimke/webmock) for stubbing http requests

- [YAAF](https://github.com/rootstrap/yaaf) for form objects



## Optional configuration



- Set your [frontend URL](https://github.com/cyu/rack-cors#origin) in `config/initializers/rack_cors.rb`

- Set your mail sender in `config/initializers/devise.rb`

- Config your timezone accordingly in `application.rb`

- Config CI parallel execution. See [docs](docs/ci.md)

- Fullstack development. See [docs](docs/fullstack.md).



## API Docs



- [RSpec API Doc Generator](https://github.com/exoego/rspec-openapi) you can generate the docs after writing requests specs

- [Rswag](https://github.com/rswag/rswag) you can expose the generated docs



See [API documentation docs](./docs/api_documentation.md) for more info



## Code quality



With `bundle exec rails code:analysis` you can run the code analysis tool, you can omit rules with:



- [Rubocop](https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/blob/master/config/default.yml) Edit `.rubocop.yml`

- [Reek](https://github.com/troessner/reek#configuration-file) Edit `config.reek`

- [Rails Best Practices](https://github.com/flyerhzm/rails_best_practices#custom-configuration) Edit `config/rails_best_practices.yml`

- [Brakeman](https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman) Run `brakeman -I` to generate `config/brakeman.ignore`



## Impersonation



The `rails_api_base` incorporates a user impersonation feature, allowing `AdminUser`s to assume the identity of other `User`s. This feature is disabled by default.



See [Impersonation docs](./docs/impersonation.md) for more info



## Monitoring



In order to use [New Relic](https://newrelic.com) to monitor your application requests and metrics, you must setup `NEW_RELIC_API_KEY` and `NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME` environment variables.

To obtain an API key you must create an account in the platform.



## Configuring Code Climate



1. After adding the project to CC, go to `Repo Settings`

1. On the `Test Coverage` tab, copy the `Test Reporter ID`

1. Set the current value of `CC_TEST_REPORTER_ID` in the [GitHub secrets and variables](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/using-secrets-in-github-actions#creating-secrets-for-a-repository)



## Code Owners



You can use [CODEOWNERS](https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-code-owners) file to define individuals or teams that are responsible for code in the repository.



Code owners are automatically requested for review when someone opens a pull request that modifies code that they own.



## Credits



Rails API Base is maintained by [Rootstrap](http://www.rootstrap.com) with the help of our

[contributors](https://github.com/rootstrap/rails_api_base/contributors).



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