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diff --git a/guides/source/api_app.md b/guides/source/api_app.md index b4d90d31de..85367c50e7 100644 --- a/guides/source/api_app.md +++ b/guides/source/api_app.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -**DO NOT READ THIS FILE ON GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED ON http://guides.rubyonrails.org.** +**DO NOT READ THIS FILE ON GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED ON https://guides.rubyonrails.org.** Using Rails for API-only Applications ===================================== @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ With the advent of client-side frameworks, more developers are using Rails to build a back-end that is shared between their web application and other native applications. -For example, Twitter uses its [public API](https://dev.twitter.com) in its web +For example, Twitter uses its [public API](https://developer.twitter.com/) in its web application, which is built as a static site that consumes JSON resources. Instead of using Rails to generate HTML that communicates with the server @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Handled at the Action Pack layer: - Header and Redirection Responses: `head :no_content` and `redirect_to user_url(current_user)` come in handy. Sure, you could manually add the response headers, but why? -- Caching: Rails provides page, action and fragment caching. Fragment caching +- 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 for three kinds of HTTP authentication. @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Handled at the Action Pack layer: 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 + the controller, action, parameters, request format, request method, and the request's full path). - 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 @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ This will do three main things for you: `ActionController::Base`. As with middleware, this will leave out any Action Controller modules that provide functionalities primarily used by browser applications. -- Configure the generators to skip generating views, helpers and assets when +- Configure the generators to skip generating views, helpers, and assets when you generate a new resource. ### Changing an existing application @@ -375,7 +375,6 @@ controller modules by default: - `ActionController::ConditionalGet`: Support for `stale?`. - `ActionController::BasicImplicitRender`: Makes sure to return an empty response, if there isn't an explicit one. - `ActionController::StrongParameters`: Support for parameters white-listing in combination with Active Model mass assignment. -- `ActionController::ForceSSL`: Support for `force_ssl`. - `ActionController::DataStreaming`: Support for `send_file` and `send_data`. - `AbstractController::Callbacks`: Support for `before_action` and similar helpers. @@ -392,7 +391,7 @@ Other plugins may add additional modules. You can get a list of all modules included into `ActionController::API` in the rails console: ```bash -$ bin/rails c +$ rails c >> ActionController::API.ancestors - ActionController::Metal.ancestors => [ActionController::API, ActiveRecord::Railties::ControllerRuntime, @@ -413,7 +412,7 @@ Some common modules you might want to add: - `AbstractController::Translation`: Support for the `l` and `t` localization and translation methods. -- Support for basic, digest or token HTTP authentication: +- Support for basic, digest, or token HTTP authentication: * `ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic::ControllerMethods`, * `ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Digest::ControllerMethods`, * `ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Token::ControllerMethods` |