acts_as_api

acts_as_api makes creating XML/JSON responses in Rails 3, 4, 5 and 6 easy and fun.

It provides a simple interface to determine the representation of your model data, that should be rendered in your API responses.

In addition to Rails it theoretically can be used with any ruby app and any database (ActiveRecord, Mongoid and ActiveResource are supported out of the box) as it only has few dependencies.

The lib is very fast in generating your responses and battle tested in production with platforms like Diaspora or flinc.

Introduction

acts_as_api enriches the models and controllers of your app in a Rails-like way so you can easily determine how your API responses should look like:

class User = 3.0.0)
* ActiveSupport (>= 3.0.0)
* Rack (>= 1.1.0)

### Links

* Introduction: http://fabrik42.github.com/acts_as_api

* Docs: http://rdoc.info/projects/fabrik42/acts_as_api

* Found a bug? http://github.com/fabrik42/acts_as_api/issues

* Wiki: https://github.com/fabrik42/acts_as_api/wiki

* Want to contribute - the spec suite is explained here: https://github.com/fabrik42/acts_as_api/tree/master/spec

### Downwards Compatibility

Note that upgrading to 0.3.0 will break code that worked with previous versions due to a complete overhaul of the lib.
For a legacy version of this readme file look here: https://github.com/fabrik42/acts_as_api/wiki/legacy-acts_as_api-0.2-readme