Pipes - Kate Evans-Spitzer - API Muncher

[Guribot]

API Muncher

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
How did you go about exploring the Edamam API, how did you try querying the API?	I spent a long time using a combination of HTTParty in Pry and Postman just to understand the fundamentals of what the requests and responses looked like - especially using Pry/HTTParty to figure out how to access specific data within the JSON response.
Describe your API Wrapper. How did you decide on the methods you created?	My main goal was to create methods that, as a user, I would intuitively use - for instance, coming from Rails MVC conventions, my instinct was to use .find(:id) to find an individual recipe. After creating the two basic query methods (#search and #find), I created a few private helper methods to either DRY out code or to separate out more complicated actions, such as determining if there were more recipes after a set search range.
Describe an edge case or failure case test you wrote for your API Wrapper.	Testing for various inputs (found or unfound), testing with or without authentication, and testing with and without optional search parameters
Explain how VCR aids in testing an API.	By recording a single response, it allows the test to work with an actual response without having to query the API every single time. Querying the API with every test would put additional load on the API/query limits, but would also cause all tests to be dependent on the API functioning at a given moment.
What is the Heroku URL of your deployed application?	http://kes-muncher.herokuapp.com/

[droberts-sea]

API Muncher

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	yes
Comprehension questions	yes
General
Rails fundamentals (RESTful routing, use of named paths)	yes
Semantic HTML	yes
Errors are reported to the user	yes
API Wrapper to handle the API requests	yes
Controller testing	yes
Lib testing	yes - good work!
Search Functionality	yes
List Functionality	yes
Show individual item functionality (link to original recipe opens in new tab)	yes
Styling
Foundation Styling for responsive layout	yes
List View shows 10 items at a time/pagination	yes
The app is styled to create an attractive user interface	yes
API Features
The App attributes Edaman	yes
The VCR casettes do not contain the API key	yes
External Resources
Link to deployed app on Heroku	yes
Overall	Excellent job overall! This site is attractive and responsive, easy to navigate and well-tested. Keep up the hard work!

[droberts-sea]

This begin/rescue has me confused - it doesn't look like anything here will throw an error. Also, you should always be rescuing a particular error, to prevent yourself from accidentally rescuing programming errors.