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| -rw-r--r-- | actioncable/test/client_test.rb | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | guides/source/api_app.md | 29 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/actioncable/test/client_test.rb b/actioncable/test/client_test.rb index 626b4e34a2..1b07689127 100644 --- a/actioncable/test/client_test.rb +++ b/actioncable/test/client_test.rb @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class ClientTest < ActionCable::TestCase @ws = Faye::WebSocket::Client.new("ws://127.0.0.1:#{port}/") @messages = Queue.new @closed = Concurrent::Event.new - @has_messages = Concurrent::Event.new + @has_messages = Concurrent::Semaphore.new(0) @pings = 0 open = Concurrent::Event.new @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class ClientTest < ActionCable::TestCase @pings += 1 else @messages << hash - @has_messages.set + @has_messages.release end end @@ -92,8 +92,7 @@ class ClientTest < ActionCable::TestCase end def read_message - @has_messages.wait(WAIT_WHEN_EXPECTING_EVENT) if @messages.empty? - @has_messages.reset if @messages.size < 2 + @has_messages.try_acquire(1, WAIT_WHEN_EXPECTING_EVENT) msg = @messages.pop(true) raise msg if msg.is_a?(Exception) @@ -104,9 +103,11 @@ class ClientTest < ActionCable::TestCase def read_messages(expected_size = 0) list = [] loop do - @has_messages.wait(list.size < expected_size ? WAIT_WHEN_EXPECTING_EVENT : WAIT_WHEN_NOT_EXPECTING_EVENT) - if @has_messages.set? - list << read_message + if @has_messages.try_acquire(1, list.size < expected_size ? WAIT_WHEN_EXPECTING_EVENT : WAIT_WHEN_NOT_EXPECTING_EVENT) + msg = @messages.pop(true) + raise msg if msg.is_a?(Exception) + + list << msg else break end diff --git a/guides/source/api_app.md b/guides/source/api_app.md index 563214896a..1cc8257172 100644 --- a/guides/source/api_app.md +++ b/guides/source/api_app.md @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ In this guide you will learn: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -What is an API app? -------------------- +What is an API Application? +--------------------------- Traditionally, when people said that they used Rails as an "API", they meant providing a programmatically accessible API alongside their web application. @@ -28,15 +28,14 @@ applications. For example, Twitter uses its [public API](https://dev.twitter.com) in its web application, which is built as a static site that consumes JSON resources. -Instead of using Rails to generate dynamic HTML that will communicate with the -server through forms and links, many developers are treating their web application -as just another client, delivered as static HTML, CSS and JavaScript consuming -a simple JSON API. +Instead of using Rails to generate HTML that communicates with the server +through forms and links, many developers are treating their web application as +just an API client delivered as HTML with JavaScript that consumes a JSON API. This guide covers building a Rails application that serves JSON resources to an -API client **or** a client-side framework. +API client, including client-side frameworks. -Why use Rails for JSON APIs? +Why Use Rails for JSON APIs? ---------------------------- The first question a lot of people have when thinking about building a JSON API @@ -75,7 +74,7 @@ Handled at the middleware layer: URL-encoded String? No problem. Rails will decode the JSON for you and make it available in `params`. Want to use nested URL-encoded parameters? That works too. -- Conditional GETs: Rails handles conditional `GET`, (`ETag` and `Last-Modified`), +- Conditional GETs: Rails handles conditional `GET` (`ETag` and `Last-Modified`) processing request headers and returning the correct response headers and status code. All you need to do is use the [`stale?`](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/ConditionalGet.html#method-i-stale-3F) @@ -104,21 +103,21 @@ Handled at the Action Pack layer: add the response headers, but why? - Caching: Rails provides page, action and fragment caching. Fragment caching is especially helpful when building up a nested JSON object. -- Basic, Digest and Token Authentication: Rails comes with out-of-the-box support +- Basic, Digest, and Token Authentication: Rails comes with out-of-the-box support for three kinds of HTTP authentication. -- Instrumentation: Rails has an instrumentation API that will trigger registered +- Instrumentation: Rails has an instrumentation API that triggers registered handlers for a variety of events, such as action processing, sending a file or data, redirection, and database queries. The payload of each event comes with relevant information (for the action processing event, the payload includes the controller, action, parameters, request format, request method and the request's full path). -- Generators: This may be passé for advanced Rails users, but it can be nice to - generate a resource and get your model, controller, test stubs, and routes - created for you in a single command. +- Generators: It is often handy to generate a resource and get your model, + controller, test stubs, and routes created for you in a single command for + further tweaking. Same for migrations and others. - Plugins: Many third-party libraries come with support for Rails that reduce or eliminate the cost of setting up and gluing together the library and the web framework. This includes things like overriding default generators, adding - rake tasks, and honoring Rails choices (like the logger and cache back-end). + Rake tasks, and honoring Rails choices (like the logger and cache back-end). Of course, the Rails boot process also glues together all registered components. For example, the Rails boot process is what uses your `config/database.yml` file |