Talk-Api

The new backend for Talk

Setting up

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Build & start the docker containers:

  docker-compose build
  docker-compose up
  open http://localhost:3000/

Alternatively use docker to run a testing environment bash shell and run test commands, run:

1. docker-compose run --service-ports --rm -e RAILS_ENV=test talkapi bash
2. Install the gem dependencies for the application bundle install
3. Setup the test database **
   1. RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake db:create
   2. RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake db:schema:load
   3. RAILS_ENV=panoptes_test bundle exec rake db:create
   4. RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake panoptes:db:create_tables
   5. RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake panoptes:db:setup
4. bundle exec rspec

Layout

The app is built to conform to the JSON API spec

• Serializers - app/serializers

  • Uses RestPack Serializer
  • What attributes are included in the response ?user_id=1234
  • What associations can be side loaded ?include=comments,board
  • What links can be followed from the resource

• Policies - app/policies

  • Uses Pundit
  • Who has permissions to perform actions
  • What records are visible to a user

• Schemas - app/schemas

  • Uses JSON Schema and JSON Schema Builder
  • Conforms to the JSON Schema spec
  • What request structure is expected and allowed in create and update actions

Resources

• Board
• Comment
• Conversation
• Discussion
• Moderation
• Subject
• Tag
• User

Panoptes

Talk is built to integrate with Panoptes

Authentication is provided by signing your requests with a Bearer-Token

Some resources (User, Subject) are proxied from Panoptes

Setting Up Rails-next

Using the gem https://github.com/clio/ten_years_rails to help with the upgrade path https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aCfc0DkSFo

Using docker-compose-rails-next for env setup

docker-compose -f docker-compose-rails-next.yml build

docker-compose -f docker-compose-rails-next.yml run --service-ports --rm talkapi bash

## To run bash in test env
docker-compose -f docker-compose-rails-next.yml run --service-ports --rm -e RAILS_ENV=test talkapi bash

Install the gems via next

BUNDLE_GEMFILE=Gemfile.next bundle install

OR

next bundle install

To-Do

Check the issues for what's in development.

License

Copyright 2014-2015 by the Zooniverse

Distributed under the Apache Public License v2. See LICENSE