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Jeremy Frimond
Jeremy Frimond
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Posted by Jeremy Frimond
Jeremy Frimond
14,470 Points

Incorporating Third Party API's with Ruby on Rails 5

Hello All,

Does anyone know of a good resource out there which teaches how to incorporate a third party API into an existing ruby application? For example, how to bring in data from open weather map API? What code goes in what file etc?

I know that Tree House has a blog on using HTTParty which I didn't really follow. Any additional resources beyond that?

Thanks!

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Not that I'm aware of, but I incorporated a weather API into a Rails 4 app only for use at my work, it sends text message alerts based on what conditions we want, and checks current weather every 7 minutes and forecasted weather every 2 hours.

Here is the git repo if you want to look through the whole project: https://github.com/kevinkorte/weather

And the meat and potatoes is here: https://github.com/kevinkorte/weather/blob/master/config/initializers/scheduler.rb

I'm sure there is a much cleaner way to do this, but I threw this together in about a day and it works fine for our needs.

Jeremy Frimond
Jeremy Frimond
14,470 Points
Jeremy Frimond
Jeremy Frimond
14,470 Points

Thanks I was able to glean what I needed from the meat and potatoes!