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Cool! After a hiatus from Rails, I threw together an internal tool this week with 6.0.0.rc2 - breath of fresh air in a world of microservices and complex archit

Cool! After a hiatus from Rails, I threw together an internal tool this week with 6.0.0.rc2 - breath of fresh air in a world of microservices and complex architectures. Good job rails team! === Edit: P.S. - Thanks rails community too! Was super simple to build thanks to the vibrant community... - Corporate SSO via devise + omniauth - CSV uploads (activerecord-import gem) - pagination (will_paginate gem) - external API integration - DB seeding - audit logging on edited/created data (audited gem) - wizards (wicked gem) - etc, etc.

greenie_beans 7y ago
on a whim...do you know of any good guides for integrating an external API? i'm new to rails and working on a rails project that needs to communicate with a third party api -- there are a lot of messy guides, particularly for oauth
- masonhensley 7y ago
  If I was starting out fresh, I'd probably try and check out some of the guides that services like stripe and github have for interacting with their own api's if you'd like some real world experience. Here some links: - https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb - https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby Depending on how you set up your app, you should look into organizing your external services like this: https://www.engineyard.com/blog/keeping-your-rails-controllers-dry-with-services https://www.engineyard.com/blog/keeping-your-rails-controlle...
- tra3 7y ago
  I don't know of a library for external API integration (so I'll be watching this space), but for OAuth specifically, Omniauth has been invaluable. It supports a lot of various strategies [0] which is what it called various OAuth2 implementations. 0: https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth/wiki/List-of-Strategies https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth/wiki/List-of-Strategies
- mr-ron 7y ago
  I think the pattern of making generic classes that leverage the httparty gem is solid. Depending on your preference have another layer of classes between that and your models. Or have the apis called directly from models or controllers
altmind 7y ago
Conventions in rails are so strong, that I quite possibly know how to seed and migrate your database, can integrate additional omniauth providers and know how to pull audit data even without looking at your code.
- celim307 7y ago
  100%. I can walk into most new jobs and be productive right away

greenie_beans 7y ago

on a whim...do you know of any good guides for integrating an external API? i'm new to rails and working on a rails project that needs to communicate with a third party api -- there are a lot of messy guides, particularly for oauth

masonhensley 7y ago
If I was starting out fresh, I'd probably try and check out some of the guides that services like stripe and github have for interacting with their own api's if you'd like some real world experience. Here some links: - https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb - https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby Depending on how you set up your app, you should look into organizing your external services like this: https://www.engineyard.com/blog/keeping-your-rails-controllers-dry-with-services https://www.engineyard.com/blog/keeping-your-rails-controlle...
tra3 7y ago
I don't know of a library for external API integration (so I'll be watching this space), but for OAuth specifically, Omniauth has been invaluable. It supports a lot of various strategies [0] which is what it called various OAuth2 implementations. 0: https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth/wiki/List-of-Strategies https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth/wiki/List-of-Strategies
mr-ron 7y ago
I think the pattern of making generic classes that leverage the httparty gem is solid. Depending on your preference have another layer of classes between that and your models. Or have the apis called directly from models or controllers

altmind 7y ago

Conventions in rails are so strong, that I quite possibly know how to seed and migrate your database, can integrate additional omniauth providers and know how to pull audit data even without looking at your code.

celim307 7y ago
100%. I can walk into most new jobs and be productive right away