MyMovies

This app uses Movie Database API and the themoviedb gem.

Warning

The themoviedb gem is not longer maintained. In the next version we are going to use the enceladus gem.

You can play on Apiary with the API on a web console.

Note	There are many API in the wild. This gist list many API which that require no server-side auth or private credentials, and are thus good for small browser-only JS projects.

This version implements home#index, search#index, and movies#show:

rails g controller home index
rails g controller search index
rails g controller movies show

rake routes
Prefix Verb URI Pattern      Controller#Action
search     GET  /search      search#index
movie      GET  /movies/:id  movies#show
home_index GET  /home/index  home#index
root       GET  /            home#index

These routes are set in config/routes.rb:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  # get 'home/index'
  get "search", to: "search#index"
  resources :movies, only: :show
  root 'home#index'

Configuration

The app uses the API key. To register for an API key, head into your account page on TMDb and generate a new key from within the “API” section found in the left hand sidebar (click API>Details).

Note	Try some request from the Movie Database API on the Apiary console.

Add initializer set_tmdb_api_key.rb:

config/initializers/set_tmdb_api_key.rb

tmdb_api_key = ENV['TMDB_API_KEY']
if tmdb_api_key.nil?
  puts "Please set your MovieDB key with"
  puts "$ export TMDB_API_KEY=YOUR_TMDb_KEY"
  puts "or get/generate new key within API > Details section"
  puts "on your acount TMDb page https://www.themoviedb.org/login"
else
puts "TMDB API KEY: #{tmdb_api_key}"
end
Tmdb::Api.key(tmdb_api_key)
Tmdb::Api.language("en")  # optionally, set your default language

Set the api key in the environment wit:

export TMDB_API_KEY=REPLACE_THIS_WITH_YOUR_KEY

and check with bin/tmdb script if the TMDb API works:

bin/tmdb

System dependencies

This app uses the official Sass port of Bootstrap:

• bootstrap-sass – see README for instructions how to use it with Rails

• Integrating Rails and Bootstrap:

  • Part 1 - the Installation

  • Part 2 - CSS and Components

How to run the test suite

Useful links to the RSpec documentation:

• rspec-rails

• rspec-collection_matchers

• rspec-expectations

Useful links to the Minitest documentation:

• minitest-rails – install howto

• minitest – sources on GitHub

• minitest/{unit,spec,mock,benchmark}

• minitest-rails-capybara – Capybara integration for MiniTest::Rails

• minitest-rails-capybara

Other things you may want to cover

This README would normally document whatever steps are necessary to get the application up and running:

• Ruby version

• Database creation – do not apply here

• Database initialization – do not apply here

• Services (job queues, cache servers, search engines, etc.)

• Deployment instructions – Heroku?