Rspec Api Blueprint

Autogeneration of API documentation using the Blueprint format from request specs.

You can find more about Blueprint at http://apiblueprint.org

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rspec_api_blueprint', require: false

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rspec_api_blueprint

Usage

In your spec_helper.rb file add

require 'rspec_api_blueprint'

Write tests using the following convention:

• Tests must be placed in spec/requests folder or they have to be tagged with type: :request
• Top level descriptions are named after the model (plural form) followed by the word “Requests”. For a example model called Arena it would be “Arenas Requests”.
• Second level descriptions are actions in the form of “VERB path”. For the show action of the Arenas controller it would be “GET /arenas/{id}”.

Example:

describe 'Arenas Requests' do
  describe 'arenas [/v1/arenas]' do
      describe 'create an arena [POST]' do
        it 'responds with the created arena' do
          arena = build :arena, foursquare_id: '5104'
          post v1_arena_path(arena)

          response.status.should eq(201)
        end
      end
    end
end

The output:

# Arenas

## arenas [/v1/arenas]

### create an arena [POST]
+ Request
    + Headers
        
    + Body
        {
            "id": "4e9dbbc2-830b-41a9-b7db-9987735a0b2a",
            "name": "Clinton St. Baking Co. & Restaurant",
            "latitude": 40.721294,
            "longitude": -73.983994,
            "foursquare_id": "5104"
        }

+ Response 200 (application/json)

    {
      "arena": {
        "id": "4e9dbbc2-830b-41a9-b7db-9987735a0b2a",
        "name": "Clinton St. Baking Co. & Restaurant",
        "latitude": 40.721294,
        "longitude": -73.983994,
        "foursquare_id": "5104"
      }
    }

Caveats

401, 403 and 301 statuses are ignored since rspec produces a undesired output.

TODO: Add option to choose ignored statuses.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request