This example is meant to be an example of how to structure a rails application in a bazel-ish way.

To start the application run:

bazel run :server -- server

then call the home_controller.rb#home method with:

curl 127.0.0.1:3000

This application was created by running rails new simple_rails_api --api, adding the BUILD and WORKSPACE files, then executing the changes below.

This is a simple example app so we deleted a lot of the folders, e.g. vendor public test tmp db lib log folders.

Since we are importing the rails application, we do not want to run bundler/setup as this looks at the Gemfile provided. This means that any gem setup will have to be manual.

Because the directory the application being started is in the bazel-bin folder (not the source directory) we need to change some config.

In bin/rails set:

APP_PATH = Dir.pwd + '/config/application'

and in config/application.rb add:

config.root = Dir.pwd

Added a simple home controller to make sure everything was working correctly