Recently, I have been exploring options for creating RESTful APIs in the Ruby. Concurrently, I have been investigating Sinatra and its father-framework padrino to create a lighter weight web app. While Sinatra in itself is a suitable solution for APIs, grape is a micro-framework specifically geared towards creating …

While building a REST API I began examining th issue of creating child objects that do not already have a parent object created. Consider the following scenario: Books have one author and author’s have many books. What happens when you want to add a book but have not yet created the author resource. Further, what …