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Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest TeacherForum Contest: Build an API Consumer App With Sinatra
After you've watched the video, please read the details below carefully. I'm looking forward to your entries!
How to Enter: Create an app using Sinatra that consumes a public API and displays data from it. The API can be any one of your choice and any gems for API consumption are acceptable. Entries will be judged based on code and design.
Here are some possible API options, though any are acceptable:
Here are some gems that can be used to talk to an API:
Due Date: All entries must be submitted by September 14th at 11:45pm EST. Here's a timezone chart so you can see what time that is for your locale.
Prize: One winner will receive a free month of Treehouse Pro on us! :) We'll announce the winner on September 15th and reveal the next contest.
Unsubscribed User
8,838 PointsI don't really understand this contest, Can you please explain a bit more Jason?
Aurelien Schlumberger
6,127 PointsI don't get it either. Do you want us to use OAuth (for example) to fetch data from a Twitter or Facebook account and publish it? Or do we need to create an API that can be accessed from a third party?
Walter Cordero
10,850 PointsCreate an App that consume an Api Rest, Jason give us some examples, and yes you can do that with oAuth.
Grant Hosticka
4,172 PointsLost as well
10 Answers
Charlie Hield
4,767 PointsHere's my entry, rUber.
Unsubscribed User
8,838 PointsLooks good! Well done Charlie!
Nicholas Olsen
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,342 PointsHere is my submission:
Treeshop
A web app for helping TeamTreehouse members find each other for collaborations.
NOTE: The app makes unauthenticated requests to the Github API so it only gets 60 requests per hour. If there are too many calls within an hour, it breaks. Also, I can't afford to run it on more than one dyno so it takes a while to load if it hasn't been called within 30 minutes.
The idea was a website like CodeTriage or LookingForPullRequests but geared specifically toward connecting Treehouse members.
It is really fragile and the code is pretty rough but I am damn proud of it. I had a great time doing this and I am certainly going to continue working on it (if that is ok with the Treehouse staff—I'm not sure what kind of brand problems it may cause. LMK)
Alexander Batalov
21,887 PointsWell done Nicholas Olsen!
Aurelien Schlumberger
6,127 PointsReally cool :) +1
James demby
10,296 PointsJust came across this thread.
I would love if there was a course on building a simple app with Sinatra. All of the ruby courses that get anywhere past being command line based are all in Rails.
The actual app could be really simple, but having some classes and methods tied into a UI with a controller or something like that would be awesome.
Cheers
TERWASE KELVIN GBERIKON
4,666 PointsWho was last week's Ping Pong Design winner??
Dave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherYou can find the winner and runners-up listed on the Forum post for that contest: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/forum-contest-design-the-user-interface-for-a-pingpong-scoring-app
Walter Cordero
10,850 PointsCreate an App that consume an Api Rest, Jason give us some examples, and yes you can do that with oAuth.
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest TeacherHey all! Sorry for the confusion. All we're looking for in this contest is an app that consumes some kind of public facing API and displays data however you'd like. For example, you could fetch some pictures from the Flickr API and display them on a page, perhaps with a tag search.
Unsubscribed User
8,838 PointsOoohhh thanks Jason!! Can't wait to get started! Also, when you say 'app' can it be a web app, or must it be a mobile application?
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest TeacherMax Ungless It should be a web app written in Sinatra.
Unsubscribed User
8,838 PointsJason, is Sinatra a Ruby framework? Because the contest is filed under Ruby
Nicholas Olsen
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,342 PointsYes it is a ruby framework. Check it out at sinatrarb.com It has all of the documentation you neeed there
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest TeacherHi everyone!
What a tough week! Both entries were really great this week but Nicholas Olsen won by a hair. Keep up the great work -- these make great portfolio additions.
The next forum contest is about creating a rock paper scissors game in Python. Great job everyone!
Holt Hunter
4,629 PointsHolt Hunter
4,629 PointsWhy does it say: We'll announce the winner on September 8th and reveal the next contest, when it should say September 15? Or was it just an accident?