Another REST API tutorial: How to Call a JSON API in Ruby

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Here, I have an API called Microurb_Rest that I built for this course. Microurb_Rest is a short for RESTful interfaces for Routing, and it's a basic API that has posts and makes them available to the API through the json data type.

There are many requirements for interacting with APIs in Ruby, and in this guide we are going to leverage the httparty RubyGem to handle API communication. If you don't have this gem on your local system, you can install it with the command gem install httparty.

In this code, we are creating a class called Microurb_Rest. We start by including the httparty call, and then use a variable that this gem provides called base_uri. As the name suggests, this is the base URI we are going to be using for this application.

Next, we create a method called posts and call an instance of this method. It takes a parameter, which is the endpoint of our API's URL. So, this is all we have to do inside this class.

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