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Multiple authorization_tokens, Rails RESTful API and Hootsuite

I'm building a crowdfunding website and I have a few questions about it. How can I do those things? 1- The users needs to authenticate using Hootsuite to share a product through their social ...
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Writing to Rails with a JSON API

I've been trying to write to a regular one model rails app from POSTman for a few days now, and can't figure out how to do it, or find any information on how to do it. My app has a User model with a ...
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rails devise authenticate_user before_filter + allow orgin after_filter

I met a problem I didn't arrive to solve. I'm developing an API for a mobile app. This API will be "logged in user" accessible only. The only action that should be publicly accessible is the ...
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PUT request causing logout in Rails app with Devise and CanCan

I've been searching for an answer to this the past couple of days. I'm trying to test my rails apps API with POSTman. Right now I can do a GET request no problem. For example I can go to ...
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Rails API :select DESC

i had a quick question about TmdbMovie.find code Say i search for :title => "Harry Potter", all i can really do is add a limit to how many it saves, so Say there are 7 Harry Potter movies, and I ...
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Undefined method 'name' for nil:NilClass

I'm getting some kind of nil error; this tells me it's calling nil on 'name', but it does not show me where. Here are my routes: # Mobile api map.namespace :mobile_api do |api| api.resources ...
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3dCart API integration with rails2

I need to integrate my rails 2 application with 3dCart API. I want to make a request to get number of orders in the store. to do this, I am following http://api.3dcart.com/cart.asmx?op=getOrderCount ...
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Extract Info from TMDB and save to Rails DB

I have a rails movie app and the movie info that will be featured on the site will be from TMDB. Using the TMDB-Ruby gem, i can already produce results (info) from a movie, but now i need to know ...
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Ruby on Rails Sunlight Congress Gem

I'm really new to Rails, but I'm loving it so far. I'm trying to make a website that takes the user's address, and tells the user who his senators and congressional representative is. I'm using the ...
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Saving of geodata in real time

What way of saving of data and technology, best of all approach, for storage of the current coordinates of the user? The project is written in rails, and now data simply register in the table postgre ...
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Best Practices - RoR 4 Heroku - Cron to fill database each hour from external API

I have to call externals API to fill my database, hosted on Heroku each hours. For this purpose, I've a ruby script that get all the data from externals API and output on the stdout. Now, I would ...
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Rails 3 respond_with returning associations

I have a simple Rails 3.2 controller which is consumed as an API with JSON: module Api module V1 class ReportsController < Api::V1::ApplicationController def index respond_with ...
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Traversing the Amazon Product Advertising API

Does the Amazon Products API allow users to browse their list of categories and subsequently all of the products within a particular category? I've been looking through their docs and they're ...
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building a ruby conditional to check for nested params

I'm curious in an controller action, how I can do some simple validation of nested params? def create # validate incoming post request errors = Array.new person = params[:person] event = ...
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Ruby on Rails Generate Data But Don't Store It

Hi I am new to ruby and so far have only been making simple programs that store data using scaffold so not much programming although I do know ruby I am looking to make a password api but don't want ...
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How to pass “If-Modified-Since” in a http request?

I am getting a collection of books from an external resource. For that i am using a call like response = book_resource.get_books({headers:{"If-Modified-Since" => last-update-date.httpdate}}) In ...
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API Design for lost password

What's the "best" way to implement lost password functionality in an API? I've split my app into two parts, one API and one client side (js MVC). How do you do it? I'm also developing mobile apps for ...
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Rails API makes multiple database queries when similar code in Rails console only makes one database query

I wrote a simple Rails API that returns all objects between two dates. In Rails console, the database in queried only once, but the API is causing multiple queries for the same request. This is the ...
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JSON response from API: Parsing and adding it to a Rails user Record

From a successful response from an API: _jqjsp({"id":3764383,"name":"promo ...
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How to hide the url we are posting data to through a button

I have the below button in my view. <%= button_to('On', @userdetail.url + '?value=1', :method => "post", :remote => true, :disable_with => 'loading...') %> @userdetail.url is a ...
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Ember.js find() with params

I have an Rails API which responds with the following JSON: /users/1 { "id": 1, "email": "[email protected]" } /users/1?embed=role,store { "id": 1, "email": "[email protected]" ...
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having issue in configuring server from rails with bigblue button

am developing an app in which am integarating my rails app with bigblue button. I am using bigbluebutton_rails gem. I have installed the gem, then i have done rails generate ...
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Ruby TMDB API Save a Movie to database

I am using the ruby tmdb gem to find movies from TMDB. I have my API key set up and I know how to find a movie in the rails console So Say I run this @movies = TmdbMovie.find(:title => 'The ...
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Object name in rendering JSON

In Rails 4, when rendering an object, for example User, I am getting this: { "id" : 4 , "name" : "John" } While, when using rails-api gem, I am getting this: { "user" : { "id" : 4, "name" : "John" ...
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How to extract the response of an HTTP API in rails?

I called an HTTP API and got this as a respone {"balance":0} How do I use rails to extract and get just '0'? stox FYI I used the curb gem (curl) to call API calls...if that's of any help
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Understanding ruby/rails with api's and caching

I am new to caching and some of the more advanced ruby topics. I am trying to understand a few things regarding a script I wrote. Basically my question is, if I am hitting a general api, lets call it ...
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Sync my website with outlook and gmail calendars

I have a website (written in Ruby&Rails) which enable the users to create alert with content and time stamp (e.g "meeting with my parents on 1/8/2013 14:00PM"). I want to be able to schedule them ...
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Secure API access: best strategy to secure readonly rails api for android client

I have developed a readonly api using ruby on rails, also developed an android client for this api. What I want is to restrict access to this readonly api. What is the best possible solution I can ...
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Use api of booking websites, or extract data from them with a crawler? [closed]

I'm beginning to develop a travel booking site with rails, I would like to know what is best choose between use EAN (Expedia affiliate network) and Booking.com api, or extract data from multiple ...
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Cucumber not working with rest API

our rails application (along with cucumber tests associated with it) make a call/request to an external rest API. The rails server dev environment works fine with this when it is supposed to, but ...

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