Apiarist

Apiarist is an opinionated ActiveModel::Serializers alternative

Why?

• Built on the top of inherited_resources. Creating an API is as easy as defining your resource representations.
• Serializers inherit controller's namespace making it easier to version and maintain your API.
• Serialization scopes: allows you to define different representations of the same resource.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'apiarist'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install apiarist

Usage

# app/controllers/api/v1/products_controller.rb
class Api::V1::Products < Apiarist::ResourceController::Base
  actions :index, :show
  belongs_to :category

  serialization_scope :basic, only: :index
  serialization_scope :extended, only: :show
end

# app/serializers/api/v1/category_serializer.rb
class Api::V1::CategorySerializer < Apiarist::Serializer
  attributes :id, :name
end

# app/serializers/api/v1/product_serializer.rb
class Api::V1::ProductSerializer < Apiarist::Serializer
  attributes :id, :name, :description

  scope :basic do
    attribute :category_name
  end

  scope :extended do
    association :category
  end

  def category_name
    category.name
  end
end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request