Rails 6 API Tutorial - Controller Representers p.12

In this video series we will build a Rails API from scratch. Backend APIs are useful for serving data to frontend applications, mobile apps or other backend services.

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This video covers:
0:00 - Introduction. What problem do representers solve?
1:25 - What are representers (serializers)
2:11 - How representers are called from Rails controllers
3:07 - Add a representer for books
7:15 - Test the representer via cURL and debug
10:23 - Use a method for representing a more complex field

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