API Taster: Visually Test Rails Application API

ifredwu@gmail.com (Fred Wu) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:59:00 +0000

Like a lot of places, at Locomote 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.

Tools such as Postman solves part of the issue: they allow us to quickly test API endpoints without messing with cURL.

But as a lazy developer, I want more. ;)

I want something that:

automatically generates API endpoints from Rails routes definition
defines input params as easy as defining routes
has input params that can be shared with test factories

And so API Taster was born. Please check it out to see how you can use it.

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API Taster: Visually Test Rails Application API