Creating a conventional, Stripe-like API with Grape and Ruby on Rails

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Here’s the thing about API endpoints: you end up writing the same boilerplate over and over. Pagination metadata. Object type annotations. Wrapping collections in data arrays. Every endpoint looks identical except for the one line that matters—the actual query. I got tired of it. So I built a convention system with Grape that handles all of it automatically. Now my endpoint code looks like this: #…

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