VIvinnyglennon·Jun 30, 2014Submission
Brainstem: converting ActiveRecord objects into a great JSON API
1 points · Open discussionmavenlink
brainstem
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mavenlink / brainstem
brainstem
The Brainstem gem provides a framework for converting ActiveRecord objects into a great JSON API. Brainstem Presenters allow easy application of user-requested sorts, filters, and association loads, allowing for simpler implementations, fewer requests, and smaller responses.
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The Brainstem gem provides a framework for converting ActiveRecord objects into a great JSON API. Brainstem Presenters allow easy application of user-requested sorts, filters, and association loads, allowing for simpler implementations, fewer requests, and smaller responses.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| May 2013 | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2013 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2013 | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2014 | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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4 sourcesAsk HN: Interested in helping to maintain some open source projects?
Hello HN!
I'm interested in hiring a rubyist part-time to work on and maintain a couple of open source projects, especially Huginn (https://github.com/cantino/huginn) and Brainstem (https://github.com/mavenlink/brainstem / https://github.com/mavenlink/brainstem-js). These are both projects that I help maintain, and I'd like to see them evolve faster than I have time to provide. Is anyone interested in working on these (and possibly a few other projects) for a small stipend?
If you're interested, please contact me!
1 points · Open discussionIntroducing Brainstem: build great Rails APIs
2 points · Open discussionWe did something similar to this alexkcd at Mavenlink using our Brainstem gem (you can see an example of the JSON at https://github.com/mavenlink/brainstem).
We generate a results array that is ordered based on the default order or supplied order. You can easily iterate over that then do direct lookups in the top level keys.
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