Ravelry

You are reading documentation for version: 0.2.0

The Ruby gem for accessing the Ravelry API painlessly, easily, and awesomely! This gem is actively being developed. Be sure to check the branch for the version you're using.

Important and helpful links:

API coverage

See documentation for each class (or module) to see how to initialize the objects.

API	Endpoint	Ravelry gem class / module
Misc	color_families	`Ravelry::Misc.color_families`
Misc	yarn_weights	`Ravelry::Misc.yarn_weights`
Misc	current_user	`Ravelry::Misc.current_user`
Needles	list	`Ravelry::Needles.list`
Needles	sizes	`Ravelry::Needles.sizes`
Needles	types	`Ravelry::Needles.types`
Patterns	comments	`Ravelry::Pattern.comments`
Patterns	search	`Ravelry::Pattern.search`
Patterns	show	`Ravelry::Pattern.get`
People	show	`Ravelry::User.get`

Installation

To install, type:

gem install ravelry

Hooray! You now have a gem.

Add to your Gemfile:

gem "ravelry", "~> 0.2.0"

I highly recommend pinning your version because the gem is in active development and small changes and additions will be made regularly.

Run bundle install and proceed as usual.

Configuration

API keys must be configured in the gem setup. You can do this anywhere in your application before you make API calls using the gem.

Ravelry.configure do |config|
  config.access_key = ''
  config.secret_key = ''
  config.personal_key = ''
  config.callback_url = ''
end

config.access_key - your Ravelry access key
config.secret_key - your Ravelry secret key
config.personal_key - wait for it! Your Ravelry personal key; primarily used for OAuth (not yet implemented in the gem)
config.callback_url - for OAuth, the callback url for your authentication requests

Getting these keys requires a (free) Ravelry account and that you agree to the terms of use for the API.

The keys are available to you throughout your application as:

Ravelry.configuration.access_key
Ravelry.configuration.secret_key
Ravelry.configuration.personal_key
Ravelry.configuration.callback_url

Usage

Full documentation for this gem is available here.

Conventions

This gem makes use of several conventions that are worth noting on a global scale.

Method names ending with `_count` return integers.

Example:

pattern.comments_count
# => 4

Method names ending with `_float`, `_integer`, etc return that object type.

Float to Integer conversions are done using round(0).

Example:

pattern.difficulty_average_float
# => 4.666666667

pattern.difficulty_average_integer
# => 5

Contributing

Hey! You want to contribute? That is super, super awesome. Visit the project's Trello board to see what's coming up next or what is already in progress.

Send me a pull request! Please write tests, documentation for your code (the test part kind of goes without saying, but I wanted to make sure that you knew about it and the documentation), and update the changelog with your additions under the next unreleased version.

To run specs locally, simply bundle and then run rpsec.

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