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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validating_the_user_model

unit_tests

show_user

migration_file

create_tokens

feed_the_database

presentation_of_JSON_API

validating_the_order_model

list_orders

decrementing_product_quantity

extending_the_placement_model

feed_the_database-2

feed_the_database-3

Setting Up the Authentication Token

validating_the_product_model

unit_tests_for_order_model

the_placement_model

decrementing_product_quantity-2

activation_of_CORS

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.

Building your own API with Rails

We will use the **Minitest** test framework which is included with Rails by default. Minitest is based on _Fixtures_ which allow us to fill our database with predefined data. Fixtures are defined in `YAML` files in the `tests/fixtures` folder. There is one file per template.

# Add tests for the `User` model
We must, therefore, start by updating our `tests/fixtures` folder. Fixtures are not designed to create all the data our tests need. They only allow us to define the primary data for our application needs. 

We will start by creating a fixture to define a user in `test/fixtures/users.yml`.

Learn to use unit tests to catch errors during development.

Unit Tests

Getting Started

The API

User Model

Authenticating the Users

User's Products

Building JSON

Placing Orders

Improving Orders

Optimizations

Wrap up

Appendix

Unit Tests

Add tests for the `User` model

Unit Tests

Add tests for the User model

Add tests for the `User` model