Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Charles vs DuckRails: What are the differences?
Charles: HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy. Charles is a web proxy (HTTP Proxy / HTTP Monitor) that runs on your own computer. Your web browser (or any other Internet application) is then configured to access the Internet through Charles, and Charles is then able to record and display for you all of the data that is sent and received; DuckRails: Open source development tool for mocking API endpoints. DuckRails is an open source development tool that helps developer mock API endpoints quickly & dynamically outside the application code.
Charles and DuckRails belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Charles are:
- SSL Proxying – view SSL requests and responses in plain text
- Bandwidth Throttling to simulate slower Internet connections including latency
- AJAX debugging – view XML and JSON requests and responses as a tree or as text
On the other hand, DuckRails provides the following key features:
- development
- mock
- api
DuckRails is an open source tool with 1.59K GitHub stars and 84 GitHub forks. Here's a link to DuckRails's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Charles
Pros of DuckRails
- Mock external APIs4
- Mocking4
- Dynamic responses2
- Ease of use1