This is an example of rest api using padrino. You can find an online version of this application at http://padrino-rest-api.herokuapp.com/ with the deployed version refers to the HEAD of this repository.
Following you can find the usage of this rest-api complete with request and response example. You can use the server in Heroku or you can also use local version of the server using this repository running in your local workstation.
Installation step should be fairly simple, please install the following requirements of this application before moving forward to the next step.
- Ruby 2.2.2
- Bundler
- PostgreSQL
To run this application, first install the dependencies.
bundle install
Make sure you set database user to the right user in the config/database.rb
by changing the username, and setup the database.
bundle exec rake ar:setup
Run the test to make sure things run correctly.
bundle exec rspec
If all goes well, run the application.
bundle exec padrino start
There are several api that you can use to manipulate the company data, following are the api that you can use. All api include side-load data to reduce application requests.
GET /api/companies
Example
curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/companies
Response
{
"companies": [
{
"id": 9,
"name": "Rohan and Sons",
"address": "2882 Solon Cape",
"city": "Lake Sherwoodland",
"country": "Uganda",
"email": null,
"phone": null,
"created_at": "2015-04-23T00:58:57.583Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-23T00:58:57.583Z",
"employees": [
9
]
}
],
"positions": [
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Director",
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z"
}
],
"employees": ]
{
"id": 9,
"name": "Halle Kuhlman",
"position_id": 2,
"company_id": 9,
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z"
}
]
}POST /api/companies
Input
The following input must be put inside json root named company.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | string | Required. The name of the company. |
| address | string | Required. Street address of the company. |
| city | string | Required. City name of the company. |
| country | string | Required. Country name of the company. |
| string | Company email address. | |
| phone | string | Company phone number. |
Example
Let's put the json data to be created in a file named body.json.
{
"company": {
"name": "Rohan and Sons",
"address": "2882 Solon Cape",
"city": "Lake Sherwoodland",
"country": "Uganda",
"email": null,
"phone": null
}
}And you can use curl with json above as the data to be created.
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d @body.json http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/companies
Response
{
"company": {
"id": 9,
"name": "Rohan and Sons",
"address": "2882 Solon Cape",
"city": "Lake Sherwoodland",
"country": "Uganda",
"email": null,
"phone": null,
"created_at": "2015-04-24T02:48:33.767Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-24T02:48:33.767Z",
"employees": []
},
"employees": []
}GET /api/companies/:id
Example
curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/companies/9
Response
{
"company": {
"id": 9,
"name": "Rohan and Sons",
"address": "2882 Solon Cape",
"city": "Lake Sherwoodland",
"country": "Uganda",
"email": null,
"phone": null,
"created_at": "2015-04-24T02:48:33.767Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-24T02:48:33.767Z",
"employees": [
9
]
},
"positions": [
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Director",
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z"
}
],
"employees": ]
{
"id": 9,
"name": "Halle Kuhlman",
"position_id": 2,
"company_id": 9,
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z"
}
]
}PATCH /api/companies/:id
Input
The following input must be put inside json root named company.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | string | Required. The name of the company. |
| address | string | Required. Street address of the company. |
| city | string | Required. City name of the company. |
| country | string | Required. Country name of the company. |
| string | Company email address. | |
| phone | string | Company phone number. |
Example
Let's put the json data to be updated in a file named body.json.
{
"company" : {
"name": "Rutherford and Sons",
"address": "38457 Heaney Ranch",
"city": "North Autumnport",
"country": "Sierra Leone",
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": "311.614.3341 x111"
}
}And you can use curl with json above as the data to be updated.
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PATCH -d @body.json http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/companies/9
Response
{
"company": {
"id": 9,
"name": "Rutherford and Sons",
"address": "38457 Heaney Ranch",
"city": "North Autumnport",
"country": "Sierra Leone",
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": "311.614.3341 x111",
"created_at": "2015-04-24T02:48:33.767Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-24T02:48:33.767Z"
"employees": [
9
]
},
"positions": [
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Director",
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z"
}
],
"employees": ]
{
"id": 9,
"name": "Halle Kuhlman",
"position_id": 2,
"company_id": 9,
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z"
}
]
}Following are api that you can use to manage employees.
GET /api/employees/:id
Example
curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/employees/9
Response
{
"employees": [
{
"id": 9,
"name": "Halle Kuhlman",
"position_id": 2,
"company_id": 9,
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z",
"passports": [
9
]
}
],
"positions": [
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Director",
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z"
}
],
"passports": [
{
"id": 8,
"employee_id": 7,
"upload_id": 8,
"upload_file_url": "/uploads/passport.pdf",
"created_at": "2015-04-24T06:22:17.648Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-24T06:22:17.648Z"
}
]
}POST /api/employees
Input
The following input must be put inside json root named employee.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | string | Required. The name of the employee. |
| company_id | integer | Required. Company identification number. |
| position_id | integer | Required. Position identification number. |
Example
Let's put the json data to be created in a file named body.json.
{
"employee": {
"name": "Halle Kuhlman",
"position_id": 2,
"company_id": 9
}
}And you can use curl with json above as the data to be created.
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d @body.json http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/employees
Response
{
"employee": {
"id": 9,
"name": "Halle Kuhlman",
"position_id": 2,
"company_id": 9,
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.122Z",
"passports": []
},
"positions": [
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Director",
"created_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-29T02:05:28.092Z"
}
],
"passports": []
}Passport is a property of each employee and each employee can have one or more passport, following are the api available for managing passport.
POST /api/passports
Input
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| employee_id | integer | Required. The employee id number |
| file | application/pdf | Required. The pdf file to be uploaded |
Example
curl -X POST -F "passport[file][email protected]" -F "passport[employee_id]=7" http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/passports
Response
{
"passport": {
"id": 8,
"employee_id": 7,
"upload_id": 8,
"upload_file_name": "passport-d93ee94d.pdf",
"upload_file_url": "/uploads/passport-d93ee94d.pdf",
"created_at": "2015-04-24T06:22:17.648Z",
"updated_at": "2015-04-24T06:22:17.648Z"
}
}