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:

• Full gem documentation (version 0.2.0)
• Changelog
• Project Trello board
• Ravelry API documentation

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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