GrapeMarkdown

Auto generates Markdown from the docuementation that is created by your Grape API.

NOTE

This is an early implementation that makes some assumptions about your API (follows a standard REST pattern) that works with our implementation of Grape API's. This project will generate a very simplistic Markdown document. It primarily adds some wrappers around Grape's documentation and enables other gems (grape-apiary and grape-slate) to generate Markdown in specific formats.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'grape-markdown'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install grape-markdown

Usage

Add some metadata about your API and then execute the generate method on the GrapeMarkdown::Document class.

Configuration

Configure details about your api in an initializers or similar:

GrapeMarkdown.config do |config|
  # the name of your api
  config.name               = 'Awesome API'
  # a description for your api
  config.description        = 'The awesome description'
  # the type to use for generated sample id's (`integer` or `uuid`)
  config.example_id_type    = :uuid
  # resources you do not want documented
  config.resource_exclusion = [:admin, :swagger_doc]
  # whether or not examples should include a root element (default: false)
  config.include_root       = true
end

# request headers you want documented
GrapeMarkdown.config.request_headers = [
  { 'Accept-Charset' => 'utf-8' },
  { 'Connection'     => 'keep-alive' }
]

# response headers you want documented
GrapeMarkdown.config.response_headers = [
  { 'Content-Length' => '21685' },
  { 'Connection'     => 'keep-alive' }
]

Generation

# supply the class you'd like to document and generate your blueprint
GrapeMarkdown::Document.new(AwesomeAPI).generate

TODO

Add a rake task to simplify generation
~~Add support for listing all of a resources attributes at the resource level as a markdown table~~
Handle ever changing sample id's (don't want git diff's after every generation)
Add option to change or remove the sample id field (eg. _id vs id)
What if someone does not use JSON?!?
~~Create sample response for list endpoints (array)~~
Add support for writing the markdown to disk
~~Add an option to include root in json~~

Contributing

Fork it ( http://github.com/connexio-labs/grape-markdown/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request