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#app/controller/concerns/response.rb
module Response
  def json_response(object, status = :ok)
    render json: object, status: status
  end
end

#app/controller/concerns/exception_handler.rb
module ExceptionHandler
  # provides the more graceful `included` method

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class ApplicationController < ActionController::API
  include Response
  include ExceptionHandler
end

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# spec/rails_helper.rb
# [...]
Dir[Rails.root.join('spec/support/**/*.rb')].each { |f| require f }
# [...]
RSpec.configuration do |config|
  # [...]  
  config.include RequestSpecHelper, type: :request
  # [...]
end

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module RequestSpecHelper
  # Parse JSON response to ruby hash
  def json
    JSON.parse(response.body)
  end
end

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r = require('rethinkdb');

var connection = null;
r.connect( {host: 'localhost', port: 28015}, function(err, conn) {
    if (err) throw err;
    connection = conn;

r.db('test').tableCreate('authors').run(connection, function(err, result) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));