RailsApiGuard

A pluggable, configurable rate limiting middleware for Rails APIs with Redis backend, Slack alerts, and endpoint exclusions.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails_api_guard'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rails_api_guard

rails generate rails_api_guard:install

Add this to application.rb if not used generator

config.middleware.use RailsApiGuard::Middleware::RateLimiter

Edit config/initializers/rails_api_guard.rb to set request limits, expiry time, Slack alerts, and excluded endpoint patterns.

Contribution directions are yet to add.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.