Devrant
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This gem is the unnofficial wrapper for the devRant API. It provides convinience methods and an interface to easily integrate devRant into your ruby projects.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'devrant'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install devrant
Usage
Include this gem into your project:
require 'devrant'
Initialize the devRant client:
devRant = Devrant::Api.new
Rants
Getting all rants:
require 'devrant'
devRant = Devrant::Api.new
devRant.rants.all
Getting rant by ID:
require 'devrant'
devRant = Devrant::Api.new
devRant.rants.get_rant(1234)
Filtering Rants
Allows you to fetch rants based on certain filters. Takes in a hash of parameters.
| Method | Parameters |
|---|---|
| get_rants | limit, sort, skip |
Parameter Values
| Parameter | Values | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit Optional | any integer | Sets a maximum limit to the amount of rants returned |
| sort Optional | 'recent', 'algo', 'top' | Specifies order in which to sort the rants |
| skip Optional | any integer | Specifies how many rants to skip. Useful for pagination |
Example:
require 'devrant'
devRant = Devrant::Api.new
devRant.rants.get_rants({limit: 10, sort: 'algo', skip: 5})
Users
Getting User by ID:
require 'devrant'
devRant = Devrant::Api.new
devRant.users.get_user(1234)
Development
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/alexdovzanyn/devrant. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Code of Conduct
Everyone interacting in the Devrant project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.