Ruby on Rails (API Mode)

Rails generated with the --api flag boots a slimmer middleware stack and an ApplicationController inheriting from ActionController::API (rather than ActionController::Base), making Rails a first-class JSON API framework while keeping Active Record, routing, and generators.

Ruby on Rails (API Mode) is one of 15 APIs that Ruby Programming Language and Popular API Gems publishes on the APIs.io network.

Tagged areas include Web Framework, REST, and JSON API. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: ruby:rails-api
name: Ruby on Rails (API Mode)
description: Rails generated with the --api flag boots a slimmer middleware stack and an ApplicationController
  inheriting from ActionController::API (rather than ActionController::Base), making Rails a first-class
  JSON API framework while keeping Active Record, routing, and generators.
humanURL: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/api_app.html
tags:
- Web Framework
- REST
- JSON API
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/api_app.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/rails/rails
- type: Website
  url: https://rubyonrails.org/