Building your own API with Rails

Building your own API with Rails

Delve into creating, optimizing, and securing a Rails API from scratch. Gain insights into building a full-fledged, efficient Rails API, ready for immediate use.

Beginner

77 Lessons

14h 45min

Certificate of Completion

Delve into creating, optimizing, and securing a Rails API from scratch. Gain insights into building a full-fledged, efficient Rails API, ready for immediate use.

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This course includes

92 Playgrounds
8 Quizzes

This course includes

92 Playgrounds
8 Quizzes

Course Overview

This course is a comprehensive tutorial that will teach you the best way to build your next API with Rails. You’ll learn to create a Rails API from scratch and to optimize and secure a Rails API. By the end of this course, you’ll have a full-fledged Rails API ready to be used.

What You'll Learn

Learn how to create an application using Rails

Learn about the MVC (Model View Controller) architecture and how it is used in Rails

Learn how to create and expose endpoints of a Rails API

Learn securing the endpoints of a Rails API using user authorization

Learn to optimize a Rails application

What You'll Learn

Learn how to create an application using Rails

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Course Content

1.

Getting Started

Get familiar with building a RESTful API using Rails, focusing on a marketplace app.
2.

The API

Walk through API structure, routes configuration, and versioning for designing a scalable Rails API.
7.

Placing Orders

9 Lessons

Learn how to improve managing orders, validating models, building endpoints, and sending confirmations.
8.

Improving Orders

6 Lessons

Step through improving order management by handling product quantities, stock validation, and accurate total calculations.
9.

Optimizations

9 Lessons

Get started with pagination, API caching, solving N+1 queries, and enabling CORS for better optimization.
10.

Wrap up

2 Lessons

Master the steps to test your Rails API and reflect on your learning journey.
11.

Appendix

1 Lesson

Find out about setting up a development environment for Rails API development.

Course Author

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Anthony Walker

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Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

Software Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

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