Slide deck: http://slides.com/alxjrvs/api-integrations
Explanation:
API integrations scare me. Our code floats in a nightmare void of horrors, so it's not a bad idea to get a little hands-on with our integration methodology.
files:
basic_slack.rb - A rudimentary, classes implementation of the Slack integration.
slack_service.rb - a basic 'service object' design for integrating with API's.
slack.rb - A "Service" that takes in external information and converts it into API-friendly parameters, with an injectable API component.
slack_api.rb - a thin, stateless wrapper over the HTTP calls
slack_fake.rb - a Data formatter, meant to be the API when we run our tests.