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New Rails Test App (Part 1)

Time to set up a new rails app. I’ve mainly followed the steps here, but with an eye towards adding infrastructure to pull information about soccer league tables using jobs. I’ll add some info about decision points here.

You can see progress on this project on GitHub. I’m just running things locally, so I can work more quickly and work off main.

DB Schema

This ended up...

API Endpoints in Ruby

In the previous article, we went through the main pieces of the API-calling puzzle. Now, we use those pieces to actually make some API calls (you can do this in irb).

POST example

Let’s use a no-auth API to keep things simple to start: https://api.reporter.nih.gov/

We’re going to use the Net/HTTP gem, as well as json, so at the top of our file we should have: