grape-route-helpers

Provides named route helpers for Grape APIs, similar to Rails' route helpers.

Installation

Rails

1.) Add the gem to your Gemfile.

$ bundle install grape-route-helpers

Sinatra/Rack

1.) Add the gem to your Gemfile if you're using Bundler.

If you're not using Bundler to install/manage dependencies:

$ gem install grape-route-helpers

# environment setup file
require 'grape'
require 'grape/route_helpers'

2.) Write a rake task called :environment that loads the application's environment first. This gem's tasks are dependent on it. You could put this in the root of your project directory:

# Rakefile

require 'rake'
require 'bundler'
Bundler.setup
require 'grape-route-helpers'
require 'grape-route-helpers/tasks'

desc 'load the Sinatra environment.'
task :environment do
  require File.expand_path('your_app_file', File.dirname(__FILE__))
end

Usage

List All Helper Names

To see which methods correspond to which paths, and which options you can pass them:

# In your API root directory, at the command line
$ rake grape:route_helpers

Use Helpers in IRB/Pry

You can use helper methods in your REPL session by including a module:

[1] pry(main)> include GrapeRouteHelpers::NamedRouteMatcher

Use Helpers in Your API

Use the methods inside your Grape API actions. Given this example API:

class ExampleAPI < Grape::API
  version 'v1'
  prefix 'api'
  format 'json'

  get 'ping' do
    'pong'
  end

  resource :cats do
    get '/' do
      %w(cats cats cats)
    end

    route_param :id do
      get do
        'cat'
      end
    end
  end

  route :any, '*anything' do
    redirect api_v1_cats_path
  end
end

You'd have the following methods available inside your Grape API actions:

# specifying the version when using Grape's "path" versioning strategy
api_v1_ping_path # => '/api/v1/ping.json'

# specifying the format
api_v1_cats_path(format: '.xml') # => '/api/v1/cats.xml'

# adding a query string
api_v1_cats_path(params: { sort_by: :age }) # => '/api/v1/cats?sort_by=age'

# passing in values required to build a path
api_v1_cats_path(id: 1) # => '/api/v1/cats/1.json'

# catch-all paths have helpers
api_v1_anything_path # => '/api/v1/*anything'

Custom Helper Names

If you want to assign a custom helper name to a route, pass the :as option when creating your route in your API:

class Base < Grape::API
  get 'ping', as: 'is_the_server_running'
    'pong'
  end
end

This results in creating a helper called is_the_server_running_path.

Testing

You can you the route helpers in our API tests by including the GrapeRouteHelpers::NamedRouteMatcher module inside your specs. Here's an example:

require 'spec_helper'

describe Api::Base do
  include GrapeRouteHelpers::NamedRouteMatcher

  describe 'GET /ping' do
    it 'returns a 200 OK' do
      get api_v2_ping_path
      expect(response.status).to be(200)
    end
  end
end

Contributing

1.) Fork it

2.) Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)

3.) Write specs for your feature

4.) Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')

5.) Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)

6.) Create a new pull request

License

See LICENSE