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Welcome to the acts_as_api wiki!

Some resources to get you started:

An introduction to acts_as_api

acts_as_api and Mongoid

API Responses

Examples of the default response formats

Differences to the Rails 3 default JSON response structure

DRY API Controllers using Rails 3 Responders

Advanced examples for API templates

Including a child association

Calling a method of the model

Renaming an attribute

Extending an existing api template

Calling a lambda in the api template

Calling a scope of a sub resource

Conditional statements for adding a field to the api template

Creating a completely different response structure

More Tips and Tricks

Model callbacks for acts_as_api

A pragmatic approach of API versioning

Declaring API templates for any class! (no ORMs)

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In case you're using a deprecated version of acts_as_api (> 0.3.0)

Deprecated v 0.2 Readme (does not work with 0.3.0)