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

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...