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  1. Advanced Ruby: The chainable request pattern

    Make your transactional web requests more maintainable with The Chainable Request Pattern.

    Thiago Araújo Silva
    May 6, 2024
    • Ruby
    • Error Handling
    • API
    • Distributed Systems
    • Fault Tolerance
    • Rails
  2. Handling external API errors: A transactional approach

    Clarifying a few possible ways to implement transactional workflows when working with external APIs.

    Thiago Araújo Silva
    January 23, 2024
    • Error Handling
    • API
    • Distributed Systems
    • Fault Tolerance
    • PostgreSQL
  3. Handling external API errors: A resumable approach

    Clarifying a few possible ways to implement resumable workflows when working with external APIs.

    Thiago Araújo Silva
    January 24, 2023
    • Error Handling
    • API
    • Distributed Systems
    • PostgreSQL
  4. Token Authentication with Rails

    How can you do token authentication with Rails out of the box?

    Nick Charlton
    November 8, 2019
    • Rails
    • API
  5. Meowifier: A Hiss-tory Lesson

    The tail of how it all started.

    Beth Haubert
    October 4, 2019
    • Fun
    • Code
    • Ruby
    • API
    • Inspiration
  6. Writing a Hypermedia API client in Ruby

    How Ruby and Hypermedia can simplify the way we write API clients.

    Ismael Celis
    May 12, 2017
    • Hypermedia
    • API
    • REST
    • Ruby
  7. Document an API with Paw

    Make it easy to figure out your APIs with live documentation.

    Jason Draper
    March 23, 2015
    • Web
    • API
    • HTTP
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