Meeting Next Week

[James Gray]

Rubyists:

It's time for us to gather again, next week, at the okcCoCo at 6:30 PM.

I can mostly see again, so I'll be there and I do plan to run the meeting.  I'm going to lead us in a group refactoring exercise.

I hope everyone will join us for our last meeting of the year.  See you next week.

James Edward Gray II

[Patrick Hogan]

Huzzah! Welcome back James. Hoping I can make it after a long hiatus myself.

Patrick

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[derrick parkhurst]

I've been working on web APIs recently. It might be fun to have a little workshop where we do a hands on walk through building web API wrappers using HTTParty and web APIs using Sinatra.

Would anyone be interested in that? or is that old hat to everyone?


Derrick

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[Jonathan Camenisch]

Interested

[James Gray]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:15 PM, derrick parkhurst <derrick....@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been working on web APIs recently. It might be fun to have a little workshop where we do a hands on walk through building web API wrappers using HTTParty and web APIs using Sinatra.

Would anyone be interested in that? or is that old hat to everyone?

I'm interested.  Sounds fun.

Should we try to do both things this coming Thursday or save one idea for the January meeting?

James Edward Gray II 

[Ryan Rauh]

@derick what do you mean by "web API's"

-r

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[Patrick Hogan]

Sounds interesting. And if you throw in some discussion about good API design practices and dealing with trickier resource types it would be even more interesting to those who have some experience.

Also, I feel obligated to mention grape: https://github.com/intridea/grape

Maybe hold it for the January meeting so as not to shortchange it?

Patrick

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[James Gray]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Patrick Hogan <pbh...@gmail.com> wrote:

And if you throw in some discussion about good API design practices…

I've built a couple of API wrappers lately and could give quite a few tips.  Of course, one of them would be to kick HTTParty to the curb.  :)

James Edward Gray II 

[derrick parkhurst]

Ryan,

I mean this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface#Web_APIs

as opposed to language bindings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_binding

Derrick

[Ryan Rauh]

@james 

What would you recommend over HTTParty? I've looked at Faraday and just didn't grok it

-r

[Patrick Hogan]

Agreed. I've liked using RESTClient so far.

Patrick Hogan

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[James Gray]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Patrick Hogan <pbh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Agreed. I've liked using RESTClient so far.

RESTClient is great.

There are some advantages to using faraday with a Typhoeus backend, or just straight up Typhoeus as well.

I'm happy to take about this some if we do such a meeting.

James Edward Gray II

[derrick parkhurst]

Patrick, James,

 So what I was thinking would be valuable would be a simple workshop to actually build web APIs and wrappers and not a talk on best practices (although I'm sure some of that would come up). James you already gave a great talk on API design some months back.

 I understand this might too introductory so that is why I was looking to see if there was interest. I'm betting that there are a good number of people here who've never actually done either of these things.

 If one of you wants to drive the presentation, I would enjoy participating in an introductory workshop on RESTClient or Faraday. I am only familiar with HTTParty.

 No rush here. January would be fine with me.

Derrick

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[James Gray]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:23 PM, derrick parkhurst <derrick....@gmail.com> wrote:

 So what I was thinking would be valuable would be a simple workshop to actually build web APIs and wrappers and not a talk on best practices (although I'm sure some of that would come up).

Well, I like this idea.  I say we do it.  Let's plan it for January.

James Edward Gray II