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Ruby

Posted by Janis kalnins
Janis kalnins
352 Points

Right place to make call to external API

Hello I'm learning ruby on rails. After reading in treehouse blog about httparty I was wondering, what is the right place to make API call.

I was searching in Google my question, but couldn't find answer. Some say in controller, others model, but from this post I thought I should make it in lib folder?

here is the blog post about httparty http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/its-time-to-httparty

1 Answer

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Hi Janis,

If you are interesting to know more about latest "Build a Rails API" course which is still under development by our staffs.

Build a Rails API - it will hopefully release March 2015

-Salman

Janis kalnins
Janis kalnins
352 Points

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear or asked my question incorrectly, but I wanted to know more about how to get info from API. Lets say I would like to find pictures in flickr and show them in my rails app. To do that I would have to make GET request to flickr API. And I wanted to know what is the correct place (in model/controller/lib or make new folder under app directory) to make this GET request from my rails app to flickr API.

Thanks for showing this course I hope to see it soon.

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Okay, I get your points. As I am aware that we don't have Ruby API for Flickr at this moment, however, one place I know we have is Ajax and APIs for Flickr in one of our track, please see last section.

I will contact our team to find more info about Ruby API, right now we can use to follow this instruction pretty straightforward - Integrating Flickr into your rails website.

Hope that helps. :-)

Janis kalnins
Janis kalnins
352 Points

Salman Akram Thanks for showing this gem. But now I'm confused, why should I use httparty if I can use flickr gem?

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Janis,

I just give you different options to use APIs and many gems for Flickr. The best way I can suggest is to wait new course (latest updates) in March, basically I don't have good answer why we use httparty rather than other flickr gems.

Janis kalnins
Janis kalnins
352 Points

Salman Akram Ok. Thank you for quick response. I will wait for the new course :)

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Awesome, I myself can't wait for it. ;)

~Happy Coding!