From Lousy to Beautiful

From Lousy to Beautiful

module StatsApi require 'json' require 'httparty' require 'active_support/core_ext/string' require 'jsonpath' ## Reader: note that @error is raised so that we can easily handle that in our parent methods... def find_users_stats(users_handle) # This will call the Stats API and pull back the user's stats. # All of the API settings are found in config/settings/api.yml. # Finding the Account... params = { user: users_handle } call_stats_api('get', 200, true, params) ## Reader: note that the following line is optional as you could have conditional code in ## the parental method based on @call_succeeded. raise @error = 'Account not found.' unless @call_succeeded # Finding the User's information... ## Reader note that we raise @error so that we can easily handle that in our parent methods... todays_stats = JsonPath.on(@result.body, '$.').first raise @error = "Today's Stats were n...

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