Webservices Demo

Copyright

(c) 2014-2015 Pito Salas

Summary

Contains a series of examples for teaching and demonstrating how Webservices work.

Courses

Used at Brandeis University

Dependencies

gem xml-simple

Demos

• Json_xml_ruby.rb: Working with Web Services will require various data formats. This example illustrates conversions between xml, json and text in Ruby.

• stockprice_api.rb: Work with the quandl API retrieve stock prices and convert them from JSON to a hash. Illustrates getting data out of an API and manipulating it.

• memoize_tdd_stockprice.rb Illustrate TDD and caching of data of stock prices

• To see how this works within rails, here are two examples:

  • Fortune Cookie Api Example
  • Rails RestAPI Demo