Ruby + Ember.js: ActiveModelSerializers

Notes on configuring Ruby on Rails to use ActiveModelSerializers with Ember.js


Ruby Notes:

Configure ActiveModelSerializers to use 'embed = :ids, embed_in_root = true'


Ember will expect the response to be in a format like this:
{
  "famous_person": {
    "id": 1,
    "first_name": "Barack",
    "last_name": "Obama",
    "occupation": "President"
  }
}

Controller needs to reflect that the JSON parameters will be included in a hash of the object's name
Example:
        desc 'Create a widget.'
        params do
          requires :widget, type: Hash do
            requires :name, type: String, desc: 'Widget name'
          end
        end
        post do
          widget_params = params["widget"]
          Widget.create!({
            name: widget_params[:name],
          })
        end

Logging:


To enable logging of API requests add the gem  'grape-middleware-logger' to your Gemfile
    gem 'grape', '>= 0.14.0'
    gem 'grape-middleware-logger'




Ember Notes:

  1. ember install active-model-adapter
  2. Follow the instructions at -> https://github.com/ember-data/active-model-adapter#usage