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While Rails is generally used to develop web-based applications, the increasing requirement to build API-only services has resulted in many people using Rails to build apps that have no web front end at all.
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© 2016 Alan Bradburne
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Bradburne, A. (2016). Rails API. In: Rails 5 Revealed. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1709-2_5
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