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Flickr-API

Simon Tharby's solution to Project 2: Using a Third Party API, Project: APIS, Ruby on Rails unit, Odin Project.

My additional features:

As well as satisfying the project criteria, I also added the following features:

  • mobile/desktop responsive layout (all views)
  • pagination of photo display, using 'will-paginate' gem
  • find Flickr user via user id or username
  • return basic info of Flickr user (id, username, real name, total public photos count, public albums count)
  • view all Flickr user's photos or view by album (select album title)
  • clicking on photo redirects to Flickr photo page
  • error handling for form submission (including Flickr-API errors)
  • full suite of Rspec tests, including use of of VCR gem for all tests which involve an expected response from the Flickr API.

Screenshots:

Find user form(s) -> User info: select 'view album(s)' -> Album list: select 'view album(s)' "New York" -> View album

findr-row.png

Desktop layout:

findr-desktop.jpg

Example Flickr-API error on form submission:

findr-error.png

Rspec tests

Notes:

  • I am aware that controller tests were 'soft deprecated' in Rails 5, but I included them here for my own practice with Rspec.
  • Includes use of VCR gem for all tests which involve an expected response from the Flickr API.

Output of running all Rspec tests:

flickr-rspec.png

Getting started:

To get started with the app, clone the repo and then install the needed gems:

$ bundle install --without production

Next, migrate the database (required to create schema.rb for rspec to function, despite the app not using database(s)):

$ rails db:migrate

Finally, run the test suite to verify that everything is working correctly:

$ bin/rspec

If the test suite passes, you'll be ready to run the app in a local server:

$ rails server