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Posted by Patrick Cooney
Patrick Cooney
12,216 Points

Build Rails JSON API

I hope someone can help me out. I'm trying to use Rails to build an API. I understand Rails and can build with it when I'm working normally. But when I try to use it to build an API with no views I'm just perplexed. I've googled using Rails to build and API but none of the results I've found are that helpful.

The API really just needs to be able to read and write to a database. I'm building an iPhone app that need to share data between screens and I wanted to use a Rails back-end to do it.

Does anyone know of any resources for this?

1 Answer

Samuel Wambach
Samuel Wambach
3,606 Points
Samuel Wambach
Samuel Wambach
3,606 Points

This may be helpful to you: http://blog.thecodepath.com/2011/06/27/building-a-platform-api-on-rails/

Patrick Cooney
Patrick Cooney
12,216 Points

Thanks, hopefully this will be the one that makes sense.