Queues- Anna Barklund - API muncher

[amb54]

API Muncher

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
How did you go about exploring the Edamam API, how did you try querying the API?	I created an account at developer.edamam.com and as logged in got information at Recipe Search API Documentation as well as an API key and API id. Postman was used to try out the querying as well as with code in a .rb file.
Describe your API Wrapper. How did you decide on the methods you created?	I created two class methods. One called search that for a specific query returns ten (or less) instances of recipes with. Only the recipes uri, label and image is required when a new object is created. The second class method returns all information that a query about a specific recipe (using the information in the uri) have.
Describe an edge case or failure case test you wrote for your API Wrapper.	I wrote a test for what is returned given a nonsense query, or a nil query.
Explain how VCR aids in testing an API.	A query can "be used over and over again" in the tests, so the tests can be run without risking to use up all free API calls.
What is the Heroku URL of your deployed application?	https://amb-recipes.herokuapp.com/
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	I think this was a good project.

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API Muncher

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Well Done
Comprehension questions	Well Done
General
Rails fundamentals (RESTful routing, use of named paths)
Semantic HTML	Well Done
Errors are reported to the user	Well Done
API Wrapper to handle the API requests	Well Done
Controller testing	Well Done - nice testing of flash message for negative cases.
Styling
Foundation Styling for responsive layout	Well Done - good use of the breakpoints
Search View	Well Done - Nice touch having the search form on the top nav on every page
List View	Nice formatting and styling of information. It's easy to see all the results on that page
Show View which opens in a new tab	Well Done
API Features
The App attributes Edaman	Well Done
The VCR casettes do not contain the API key	Well Done - nice variety of cassettes
Overall
	Great lib tests, and using the cassettes
	Project meets expectations and demonstrates a solid understanding of using an API, wrapping it's functionality into a wrapper testing it, and creating a custom interface for the provided data.