rails new api-test --api
vim config/puma.rb # modify it to use port 3038
rails generate scaffold People name:string
rails db:migrate
vim app/controllers/people_controller.rb  # see comments below for instructions
nohup rails server &

The Rails server has a single table for people with a name column (and also id, created_at, updated_at). It is running via http, not https, and doesn't require a login. Therefore, as minimal security, the following edit is made to the people controller so that the database can't grow too large (a poor man's way to mitigate DOS attack):

Add these lines:

    if Person.count > 150
      render :json => {"error" => "exceed 150 situation"}.to_json, :status => :unprocessable_entity
      return
    end

as the first three lines of the create method.

See curl.md for an example of the sorts of ways the back end can be hit, and how it responds.

1. refactor components
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