API Wrapper using RAWG.IO

Avion School Rails Activity

References:

API Docs: https://rawg.io/apidocs

Documentation link: https://api.rawg.io/docs/

How to use the RAWG.IO API?

Go to RAWG.IO and create an account

Push the API Button in the top right and will lead you to another page. Press the said button in the image.

This will lead you to the page to get your own API Key. Take note that the key expires in a month after you activate it.

Highly Recommended: Clone a repository into your work.

REST is used for this API Wrapper project so go ahead and follow the instructions here: https://rubygems.org/gems/rest-client/versions/2.1.0 to install the REST Gem.

You may read more of the documentation by checking out this link: https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client

Once you have everything set and read, run bundle install.

run bundle install

Using the API Wrapper

You may now call on the API from RAWG as you follow the documentation of REST-Client here: https://rubydoc.info/github/rest-client/rest-client/master

You may test the API via Postman.

Checking out my code

If you're going to check out my code, these are the routes or data that I got from API to my localhost.

  namespace :api do
    get '/creator-roles' => 'creator_roles#index'
    get '/developers' => 'developers#index'
    get '/genres' => 'genres#index'
    get '/platforms' => 'platforms#index'
    get '/platforms_parents' => 'platforms_parents#index'
    get '/creator-roles' => 'creator_roles#index'
  namespace :rawgames do
      get '/games' => 'games#index'
    end
  end

As you noticed, I created another subfolder in my controller folder hence the nesting of :rawgames in the routing. I wanted to experiment on the namespacing assuming that I created another subfolder. I wanted to see what changes will happen. I let the changes stay there so I will also have my own reference.

Testing Errors

If the test is successful, using Postmanm, this will be the outcome:

If the test is unsuccessful, I've created in the controllers, a response to errors. This is one of them: