Writing your first app

Lets write a todo API in Pliny, because Ruby developers don't have enough of them!

Assuming you went through the Getting started guide and have Pliny setup, the first step is to create a new app:

$ pliny-new todo-api

This initializes a Pliny template containing all the base files we need to build our Todo app on top. Lets start by initializing the app:

$ cd todo-api
$ bin/setup

This single script will install dependencies, create a database, setup the environment, and more.

At the heart of every API there are resources that users can manipulate. For this example we're going to offer a "todos" resources that users can create and flag as completed. Lets ask Pliny to give us a basic foundation for it:

$ pliny-generate endpoint todo
created endpoint file ./lib/endpoints/todos.rb
add the following to lib/routes.rb:
  mount Endpoints::Todos
created test ./spec/endpoints/todos_spec.rb
created test ./spec/acceptance/todos_spec.rb

... to be continued