Description: Building a RESTful API with Rails presents a number of unnecessary challenges. We'll abandon the Rails MVC for the open-source Grape DSL and examine the implementation of a RESTful APIs that can easily be versioned, tested and documented. In addition, we'll demonstrate how Grape enables an architecture that is more suitable for modern trends in web development, which push an...
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Description: Building a RESTful API with Rails presents a number of unnecessary challenges. We'll abandon the Rails MVC for the open-source Grape DSL and examine the implementation of a RESTful APIs that can easily be versioned, tested and documented. In addition, we'll demonstrate how Grape enables an architecture that is more suitable for modern trends in web development, which push an increasing amount of the MVC layer to fast client JavaScript engines via frameworks such as Backbone.js. Bio: <a href="http://code.dblock.org">Daniel Doubrovkine</a> (aka dB.) is one of the tallest engineers at Art.sy.