Using our widgets example again.
Ruby rest api client example.
Ruby has more http client libraries then i can count on my fingers and toes.
Let s look at a few examples of what makes an api restful.
We need to url encode the query before sending it otherwise we don t get.
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The rest client examples i share here are based on the examples on the httpclient website.
Ruby rest api example.
I have created a sample api in this post.
Let s first make a call using net http which is built into the ruby standard library.
It defaults to net http but you can change it like this.
As we covered with our post on best practices for api testing automation is essential to ensure proper testing coverage.
Users are encouraged to upgrade to rest client 2 0 which cleans up a number of api warts and wrinkles making rest client generally more useful.
Our find country method is fairly simple.
I ve mostly just tried to make them a little easier to read and add some additional documentation to them.
It s recommended to use bundler to manage these dependencies for hacking on rest client.
After that the method parses the response and converts it to a ruby object.
Those who build the api to expose there application making it interact with other application are called api provider.
It just uses the rest countries api to get data about a country.
Upgrading to rest client 2 0 from 1 x.
In case the api returns something other than a status 200 we ll just return nil.
In this section we will cover two.
What matters is that we have a bunch of verbs to choose from which help to describe the actions we are taking.
Ensuring that your api calls are working is key to having a functional application.
Also i m just focusing on http get requests in this article because i m writing real world code to hit the twitter rest api and all i need right.
The script i will present here talks to the twitter public api and invokes the method that returns a json array of all of the latest trends on twitter.
Faraday allows you to choose any implementation from net http to typhoeus or even rest client all from the same interface.
There are also several development dependencies.
Lest take a look at one way we can automate a basic api request using ruby and then validate that we are seeing what we want to see.
The client will be invoked from the command line however these techniques can be used from within an ruby code for example a rails controller to enable your web application to make rest calls.
