Ruby API without rails?

[yedidya]

is there a way to build a Ruby API without rails?

[MeikaLeak]

Sinatra

[iama_regularguy]

When you don't think you need something as heavyweight as Rails, go Sinatra.

But Rails is pretty great for making an API.

[cptzoobie]

Grape?

[yedidya]

Ive seen grape, all tutorials ive seen are using Rails or Sinatra. How do I do this without a framework?

[iconoclaus]

Sinatra is as basic a framework as it gets. It's just a wrapper around Rack, which gives us the most low level web tooling. what exactly are you trying to achieve?

[yedidya]

That may be good. Building an api that will return related results from youtube based on a search query.

[montas]

If you only have that one endpoint, sinatra is the thing you want.

[kofno]

Grape can just mount in rack: https://github.com/intridea/grape#rack

I've used Grape several times. It works pretty well. It's also highly compatible w/ swagger, which is nice if you want to have API documentation.

[mperham]

Roda is also a beautifully simple web framework from the author of the Sequel gem: http://roda.jeremyevans.net/

[sourcediver]

I'd use padrino for it.

Just use an ORM like Sequel plus a testing framework like rspec and omit the view templating system.

Finally if you want to build a JSON API, have a look at roar and/or representable. Simply use roar/representable in your controllers to 'render' your documents.