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Anybody have any good resources that might be helpful in trying to integrate the FourSquare API into a Rails app? I'm specifically looking for a good tutorial. There doesn't seem to be much out there yet. There are a few ruby gems, but they are pretty bare bones and I need a bit more hand-holding.
Here is a resource that I've found so far:
http://tedgrubb.com/
Stack Overflow won't let me include a second hyperlink, but you can also google: Foursquare ruby gem for another resource.
I have not done much work with APIs in the past, but I am very comfortable with Rails. What I need is a little better sense of exactly where all the pieces fit. A basic tutorial is what I'm looking for.
Thanks.
This helped me. It's a working example of a Rails project integrated with FourSquare:
https://github.com/pierrevalade/foursquare-rails-examples
Quimby is an excellent ruby api wrapper:
https://github.com/groupme/quimby
It was built by GroupMe.
'foursquare2' Ruby wrapper for the foursquare v2 API
Refere this : https://github.com/mattmueller/foursquare2 which is good & helped me a lot.
You can able to get more foursquare API data as user less and with authenticated user also
by using the 'foursquare2' gem.
The foursquare-API gem seems like the only one out there that supports V2 of their API and seems like the best place to start.
This isn't an answer, but this may be a start:
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2009/07/21/consuming-oauth-intelligently-in-rails
http://developer.foursquare.com/docs/oauth.html
I'm having trouble implementing a 4sq rails app myself.
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What I might be missing out by using the shopify_api library on a Rails API only site VS generating an app using shopify_app?
On the shopify_app github page I see things such as WebhooksManager , ScripttagsManager , etc. I am wondering if there is a subset of useful and critical tools I may need that does not come with shopify_api . Currently new and trying to learn the toolset
I never used the Shopify App till recently, I only ever used Shopify API. I found it much simpler to get work done using Sinatra and rake tasks as a combo, perfect for a lot of Shopify work.
If you look into Shopify API, it is really ActiveResource tuned for the Shopify API. Now there is GraphQL too. Really handy stuff. Handling the security of Webhooks, App Proxy or Script Tags is a couple lines of Ruby code, so you decide if pulling in 250,000 lines of Rails (for Shopify App) is worth it.
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I've never worked with or written an API before. To help me learn, I want to write a Facebook API library RubyGem.
I'm thinking I should start with learning how to write a simple API with RoR.
Do you know of any good resources or tutorials that will help me learn how to write an API with Ruby?
I think you'll first have to chose what is exactly that you want to learn, since there's quite a few parts to this.
A gem such as facebooker is used to consume the API of a web service rather than "create" or expose an API (for a web service). In order to understand a library like this and what it does, you could try to learn more about APIs in general, but also about ways to access them using Ruby.
Even though Rails and the Rails community are embracing RESTful (or actually RESTlike) APIs, there are a bunch of other forms around as well, such as SOAP. Facebook e.g. has ditched REST in favor of their graph API. Check the answers for this question, which deals with the different types, to learn more: Examples of the best SOAP/REST/RPC web APIs? And why do you like them? And what's wrong with them?
For ways to access (REST) APIs I'd suggest taking a closer look at the source code of gems such as e.g. HTTParty and rest-client as well as Ruby's standard library Net::HTTP.
What comes to API's and web services, I've heard good things about "Restful web services" but there's a whole bunch of books and about a gazillion blog posts out there on this topic. Google is your friend.
And then you'll probably want to have a look at the development of ruby gems in general. This answer might give you some pointers in this regard: Ruby : How to write a gem?
This is an endless topic and I suggest to just get started somewhere. Learn how APIs work, how to access them and then read lots and lots of source code, e.g. of Facebooker or one of the other Facebook API gems. See how they work and start writing code. Good luck!
http://8raystech.com/2009/10/06/a-real-life-restful-rails-application
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I am building a simple Rails website, where users can create posts and people can search for posts. I am hosting this application with heroku.
I was looking for options for the search functionality, and found IndexTank (starter) as the only free option with heroku.
Is it a good idea to use IndexTank for a requirement like mine? Should I go ahead with using just ActiveRecord finders to implement this search or I should use IndexTank?
Additionally, can anyone provide me with a very nice IndexTank tutorial to get started with? I found few tutorials, but could not really progress with those. Thanks.
Don't know if you have seen the official IndexTank gem for Rails:
https://github.com/kidpollo/tanker
The README file comes with some examples.
Also, here's a complete demo app:
https://github.com/adrnai/rails-3-tanker-demo
Please let me know if this helps, you can always email support # indextank dot com and we'll help you get started!
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How to automatically generate API documentation for Rails REST controller?
Is there any example I can look into using RDoc to do this?
You can try apipie-rails which I created: https://github.com/Pajk/apipie-rails/
It can do more things than just generate documentation, more info on https://github.com/Pajk/apipie-rails/.
I found https://github.com/zipmark/rspec_api_documentation to be a really nice tool. It's driven off of rspec acceptance tests so you're writing documentation at the same time you're writing acceptance tests! Double win!
Use rapi_doc gem. The setup is very simple and straight forward. Follow this tutorial: http://www.rubyglob.com/generating-api-documentation-with-rapi_doc/
You can use "calamum" a ruby build program to generate a nice html api doc from yaml file definition.
https://github.com/malachheb/calamum
Although is not automatic, I define and document my APIs using RESTful API Modeling Language or, RAML.
There are Node.js packages that turn the yaml file into a nice looking html documentation, like raml2html.
I was also searching for a good documentation tool which can be easily integrated into rails. Finally we built our own rails engine APIDOCO
However it does not auto generate the documentation but you can easily use it.
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I know that http://api.rubyonrails.org/ is meant to explain methods etc in ruby on rails, but I need something that explains the explanation to me. It seems like a good resource, I'd like to understand it or perhaps it's time to give up.
I think this might be what I was after
Reading the API
I suggest you try some light reading first. Quite a few Rails tutorials exist.
As the URL indicates, this is API documentation. You use it for reference, not for learning about the language or framework. This is not specific to the Rails API, but for just about every framework out there.
I suggest you follow a few Ruby tutorials and then start on a few Rails tutorials first.
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ should get you started on Ruby. I won't bother linking to Rails tutorials, but http://railscasts.com/ is an excellent place to start once you get a basic Rails app up and running.
After that, the Rails API will start making a lot more sense.
http://api.rubyonrails.org is definitely not what I would call newbie friendly. Here's some places to go for more information:
railsapi.com -- Same idea but way better presentation, easier to navigate. Use this like you would msdn.com: a reference for things you already know about, but need to look up the particulars.
guides.rubyonrails.org -- This is geared much more towards new users in a tutorial format.
railscasts.com -- Short demonstrations of particular features and plugins in screencast format.
Of course if you have any specific questions about the framework you've already come to the right place.
I recommend at http://www.railsbrain.com and http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.5/ as better ways of navigating the docs.
Another good source would be apidock.com
Contains lots of examples on how to use each rails feature.
In addition the same site also provides documentation for Ruby
This one has a lot of good examples: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby-on-rails-2.1/rails-quick-guide.htm