Rails API Template

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Table of contents

• Rails API Template
• Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Usage
    • New Rails project

Introduction

This is a very opinionated Rails 5.2+ API template that includes the following gems:

• PG
• OJ
• bunny
• serverengine
• google-protobuf
• concurrent-ruby
• goldiloader
• bootsnap
• GraphQL
• rack-cors
• rack-attack

Usage

New Rails project

rails new PROJECT_NAME \
  -m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chimney-rock/rails-api-template/master/template.rb \
  -d postgresql \
  --skip-webpack-install \
  --skip-action-cable \
  --skip-sprockets \
  --skip-javascript \
  --skip-turbolinks \
  --skip-test \
  --api