Carbon Copy - Easily cache them REST calls

Carbon Copy allows quick front end (or back end) development by caching REST responses.

Install the gem

gem install carbon-copy

Run the server with a specified port

carbon-copy -p 8989

Alter your REST calls on the front-end to pipe them locally through carbon-copy

$.get('http://localhost:8989/slow.server.com/resource')

On the first run, the requests will be cached in the .request_cache directory in the same path as where you called the server. On subsequent requests, the calls will pull from that cache instead of contacting the server.

You can restart the cache at any time by deleting the specific cache files.