About

ApiBuilder is a Ruby on Rails template engine that allows for multiple formats being laid out in one specification, currently XML and JSON. The template engine currently returns a hash that is converted to either JSON or XML, JSON being the only usable format right now.

Installation

$ rails plugin install git://github.com/lassebunk/api_builder.git

Examples

In app/views/users/index.apibuilder:

array do
  @users.each do |user|
    element do
      id @user.id
      name @user.name
    end
  end
end

In app/views/users/show.apibuilder:

element do
  id @user.id
  name @user.name
  address do
    street @user.street
    city @user.city
  end
  array :interests do
    @user.interests.each do |interest|
      element interest.name
    end
  end
end

More examples to come. This is the first version which will be expanded as I use this myself. Inputs are welcome at lassebunk@gmail.com.

Copyright © 2011 Lasse Bunk, released under the MIT license