Persumi - Level up your writing and blogging with AIFred Wuifredwu@gmail.comhttp://persumi.com/u/fredwuhttp://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/t/apiBlog (api) - Fred Wu's Tech2026-05-01T23:25:30.866457Z<![CDATA[<p>
Like a lot of places, at <a href="http://locomote.com.au">Locomote</a> we are building a platform that is API-based. As much as I like having comprehensive test suites, I often feel the need to manually test API endpoints to see exactly what the responses are.</p>
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Tools such as <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm">Postman</a> solves part of the issue: they allow us to quickly test API endpoints without messing with <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/">cURL</a>.</p>
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But as a lazy developer, I want more. ;)</p>
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I want something that:</p>
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automatically generates API endpoints from Rails routes definition </li>
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defines input params as easy as defining routes </li>
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has input params that can be shared with test factories </li>
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And so <a href="https://github.com/fredwu/api_taster">API Taster</a> was born. Please check it out to see how you can use it.</p>
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]]>2012-07-02T04:59:00.000000ZFred Wuifredwu@gmail.comhttp://persumi.com/u/fredwuhttp://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/p/api-taster-visually-test-rails-application-apiAPI Taster: Visually Test Rails Application API2012-07-02T04:59:00.000000Z