I am building a Rails-API using Omniauth-facebook and Devise-token-auth with Angular and ng-token-auth for the frontend. However when logging in with facebook I am presented with the error: undefi...

I have updated my rails api application from 5.1 to 5.2. I am using rails api only. I am trying to use the active storage. I think the problem is due to the line config.api_only = true in config/a...

I have been looking around a lot and have not found a solution. I have a rails-API application and simple model, controller, and serializer but when I try to get index route I get standard rails ...

I have been stuck on this problem for several days and I don't know what is wrong with it. I started Ruby on Rails few months ago and I am currently learning authentication with API. I have looked ...

Would want to add the url for the attached file, while responding to get request for a nested resource (say Document) for parent resource (say Person). # people_controller.rb def show render json...

I'm actually working on an API which uses Rails 4. I would like to set the Content-Type of a request to JSON if the client does not specify a media type in Content-Type header. In order to get tha...

I'm trying to write an Ember application in Rails 4, and have decided to go with rails-api for the api controllers, while keeping the application controller intact for a few pages that aren't part ...

I am working on my rails RESTful API and I have set up a versioning feature on some of the endpoints. I have a class ApiVersion which Is responsible for determining which controllers to render base...

I'm using the rails-api gem to build a web service and want to test my API with RSpec. Every request I make, regardless of the HTTP method has the CONTENT_TYPE header set as "application/x-www-form...

Whenever sending malformed JSON against my API-only Rails 5.x application, I get an exception and Rails is returning the entire stack trace as JSON. Obviously I'd like to respond with a nicely, cus...

I have a react app that sends a POST request to my rails API. I want my API endpoint to generate a csv file and then to send back that file to the react app. I want then the browser to download of ...

I am building 2 apps; a front-end, and a back-end. The back-end will be built using Rails API + Doorkeeper Gem (oauth2 provider) while the front-end will be built using React Native. Currently, I a...

I've created a rails-api application and proceeded to secure it using token authentication. I've set a before_filter that is calling a method which uses authenticate_or_request_with_http_token. Ev...

In my config/application.rb file, I have this code, config.action_dispatch.default_headers = { 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' => '*', 'Access-Control-Request-Method' => 'GET, PATCH, PUT, PO...

I googled a little bit to find a proper and easy to implement way to generate Swagger documentation for an existing Rails API app. To be short, there are 2 ways of implementation: either via contro...

I'm trying to setup Authlogic with single_access_token for my rails backend app (I'm using rails-api gem). I'm following this example: http://blog.centresource.com/2013/06/04/using-ember-auth-with...

We're using active_model_serializers - 0.8.1 in a Rails application. The app has some API specific controllers inheriting from ActionController::Metal in a way similar to rails-api's ActionControl...

This is my problem, I override the controllers for an User model: mount_devise_token_auth_for 'User', at: 'auth', controllers: { registrations: 'v1/authentication/registrations' sessions: 'v1/au...

I'm writing an API-Only Rails App (rails 5.2) and I need to make use of ActiveStorage. I want to write an RSpec Request Spec to ensure that file uploads work properly, but that's proving very diffi...

In the Ruby on Rails has_secure_token gem/feature, it creates a unique token upon record creation and stores it in the database as plain text. If I am using that token to grant users access to an A...

How can I get url of my has_one model attachment stored in active storage in my rails controller. So, that I would be able to send it as full link as api in json. So far, I have tried following met...

I am building a Rest API using rails-api and active-model-serializer to easily filter the required fields in the JSON. I am also using the has_one association in these serializers. All I wanted to ...

I'm building a JS app with a Rails backend and in order not to confuse snake and camel cases, I want to normalize it all by returning camelcase key names from the server. So user.last_name would re...

I have an API only rails app which needs documentation for frontend developers. And it's my first experience with it. What tool do you use for this purpose? Note that I am using rails 5 API...

I'm currently using Devise with my Rails API app to authenticate users using devise-jwt. This is what my User model looks like: class User < ApplicationRecord devise :database_authenticatable...