film genre and alternate_ids not working properly

[RoyalTS]

For a project of mine I need the genres and the IMDB ID associated with movies. The API returns both, but bf.movies.search_by_name("Hackers")[0].genres just returns nil and bf.movies.search_by_name("Hackers")[0].alternate_ids throws a NoMethodError.

[brianmichel]

I'll investigate this today for you!

[brianmichel]

@RoyalTS try using the .info on the end, like this bf.movies.search_by_name("Hackers")[0].info , it should contain all of the info you need. The way their api is structured you get a limited set of info back for a search, then you have to make a detailed call for for more info. I'll checkout if there is a way to get ALL of the information by passing a flag or something.

[RoyalTS]

@brianmichel Thank you very much! .info indeed gets the job done.

As for making all information available via method calls to BadFruit::Movie, couldn't this be done with the same method_missing magic that Rails makes so much use of (http://kconrails.com/2010/12/21/dynamic-methods-in-ruby-with-method_missing/)?

[brianmichel]

Not a bad idea at all, I have to make some changes anyway (looks like there are more cool features of their API) as well as write REAL documentation :) So I'll see what I can do with the dynamic methods.