Rack Goggles¶ ↑

• github.com/jbarnette/rack-goggles

See a “pretty” version of your API.

Goggles installs a little tiny Sinatra app on a URL prefix and serves any JSON responses that come back as a prettyprinted HTML page. There are browser add-ons that do a great job with this sort of thing, but I wanted something I could live-link from API docs.

This could be a lot fancier and prettier, I just extracted the bare minimum from a production app. Patches welcome.

require "rack/goggles"
use Rack::Goggles, "/goggles"

Let’s pretend your app has a users resource available at http://example.org/api/v3/users. With Goggles configured as above, hitting http://example.org/goggles/api/v3/users will give you a prettified version.

Goggles ignores any response that doesn’t have an application/json content type.

$ gem install rack-goggles

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Goggles uses a modified version of James Padolsey’s prettyPrint.js (github.com/jamespadolsey/prettyPrint). Thanks, James!