# How to create APIs and Web services in rails.

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/how-to-create-apis-and-web-services-in-rails/68719>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [March 21, 2014, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/how-to-create-apis-and-web-services-in-rails/68719 "2014-03-21T05:42:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![BalaRaju\_Vankala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc348/32.png) [@BalaRaju\_Vankala](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/BalaRaju_Vankala)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/how-to-create-apis-and-web-services-in-rails/68719/1 "2014-03-21T05:42:08Z")

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Hello,

How to create Web Services in rails.

Present we are developing one website in rails, and we want to develop same website for Mobile. We want to create APIs and provide that apis for mobile development.

So can you guys help me, how to create APIs and Web Services in rails.

thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![saravanan\_p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@saravanan\_p](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/saravanan_p)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/how-to-create-apis-and-web-services-in-rails/68719/2 "2014-03-21T06:08:27Z")

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Hi Bala,

Watch this episode to get start:

[http://railscasts.com/episodes/350-rest-api-versioning](http://railscasts.com/episodes/350-rest-api-versioning)

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**Author:** ![Triet\_Le](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Triet\_Le](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Triet_Le)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/how-to-create-apis-and-web-services-in-rails/68719/3 "2014-03-22T01:40:34Z")

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Hello Bala,

More, you can take a look at Service Oriented Design in Ruby and Rails book. It’s very helpful.

Thanks!

Triet

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**Author:** ![RailsNewBie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@RailsNewBie](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/RailsNewBie)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/how-to-create-apis-and-web-services-in-rails/68719/4 "2014-03-23T17:21:47Z")

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Here are a couple of suggestions you can consider:

Grape [http://intridea.github.io/grape/](http://intridea.github.io/grape/)

Rails-API

> **[GitHub - rails-api/rails-api: Rails for API only applications](https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api)**
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> Rails for API only applications. Contribute to rails-api/rails-api development by creating an account on GitHub.