google-books-ruby-client

A Ruby client for the Google Books API .

ENDPOINTS

There are five endpoints for this client, namely:

1. Books - gives a list of books containing keywords from the search parameters.

2. Downloads - similar to #1, however, search is limited to books that can be downloaded and accessed thru an ebook reader.

3. Volume ID - gives a single book from the given volume ID. Since each volume ID is unique, is must be explicitly entered by the user.

4. Bookshelves - gives the list of bookshelves of a user. Each bookshelf ID is specific to a user and must be explicitly entered as well.

5. Shelf Volumes - gives the list of books from a user's bookshelf. Parameters should include bookshelf ID and shelf ID.

USAGE

1. Before anything else, generate an API key.

2. Fork or download this repo.

3. In your command line, cd into the repo and bundle install Faraday and OJ(optional) gems.

4. Run the database migrations thru rake db:migrate.

5. Start the rails server by typing bin/rails server or bin/rails s.

5. In the client.rb file under the apps/apis/google_books/v1 directory, input the generated API key here

6. In each of the controllers, the APIs are already contained in their respective wrappers and each of the controllers have a corresponding view file. However, views can be customized depending on the user.