Newbie needs your help :D I want to figure out how to save parsed data from external api to database

George Stoumpos

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Oct 5, 2016, 2:51:56 PM10/5/16

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Hi there!

I need your help

I need to figure out a way to save parsed data in my apps database.

Using nokogiri and open-uri I've managed to create an Array object with several hashes. All I want to do next is to save each hash object as a database entry.

I have a controller with all the CRUD actions, but I cant find a way to save each hash in my db.

Somehow I am frustrated and I cant seem to figure this out.

Thank you in advance

Hassan Schroeder

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Oct 5, 2016, 3:26:29 PM10/5/16

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On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:51 AM, George Stoumpos <sto...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Using nokogiri and open-uri I've managed to create an Array object with
> several hashes. All I want to do next is to save each hash object as a
> database entry.
> I have a controller with all the CRUD actions, but I cant find a way to save
> each hash in my db.

What exactly are you having a problem with? Storing a single hash,
or storing multiple hashes during a single request, or ?

Do you have some code to show where you're blocked?

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George Stoumpos

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Oct 5, 2016, 3:33:41 PM10/5/16

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>What exactly are you having a problem with? Storing a single hash,
>or storing multiple hashes during a single request, or ?

>Do you have some code to show where you're blocked?

here's my code http://pastebin.com/X4c40WYn

look for the profnews action

Hassan Schroeder

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Oct 5, 2016, 3:58:05 PM10/5/16

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On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:33 PM, George Stoumpos <sto...@gmail.com> wrote:

> here's my code http://pastebin.com/X4c40WYn
> look for the profnews action

So what's not happening that you expect? Or happening that you
don't expect?

I would probably move all that build logic into a service object to
make it easier to test, but regardless, do you have a failing test for
this?

If not, creating one would be a good place to start :-)

Colin Law

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Oct 5, 2016, 4:01:37 PM10/5/16

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Have a look at the rails guide on debugging [1] for suggestions on how
to work out what is/is not happening in your code

Colin

[1] http://guides.rubyonrails.org/debugging_rails_applications.html

George Stoumpos

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Oct 6, 2016, 10:00:19 AM10/6/16

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Thank you everyone for your efford to help me :D

It seems there was a problem with my routes, I managed to fix what I was supposed to do!