Nasa Image API Search

Hosted on Heroku: https://powerful-ocean-19109.herokuapp.com/

Tracks Searches to the Nasa Images API.

• Records a count of each unique search term

• Provides filtering of search history by date, and count, and alphabetical.

• Clicking on a search in the sidebar searches it again

• Viewing a search result will show times it was previously searched.

• Returns and displays JSON currently, but in the future, this could be wrapped and parsed to display the different media types the API supports with more time.

• Pagination was not considered at this time, but will need to be addressed in the future.

Setup

• Install Ruby 2.5.1

• Run:

  bundle install
  rails db:create && rails db:migrate
  rails server

Running Tests

You can run our small suite of tests with

rails test

Currently we don't have VCR or another library to help with API requests, but in the future, this can easily be added.

Some Info

Uses a service class in app/services/nasa_images.rb to use HTTParty to get the response back from NASA's api.

Search is done via the SearchesController, we have some weirdness with the fact the index and create methods are duplicated, but this was done to handle some other cases, where I wanted to return results and still log the search without making the links be a different type of method than GET.

SearchTerm currently has no database constraints for uniqueness for query. This is currently handled via a model validation.