How to Use the Faraday Gem

[@demiansims728]

Thank you for this clear explanation. Many tutorials are good but assume too much. This starts from the beginning in understanding API wrappers and getting the data you need.

[@JesusCastello]

Great! I try to make everything clear so everyone can learn :)

[@Jambajakumba]

Hey thank you for all these lessons. They are really informative on Ruby. Can you do one on act-as-tenant ?

[@JesusCastello]

Hi, thanks for watching! I need heard about that gem, but I may look into it if I have extra time. Thanks for the suggestion :)

[@mun6048]

Could you help me understand why do we request the API with FARADAY why not use AJAX ?? If we using Faraday what is the advantage over Ajax ?

[@JesusCastello]

Sure. Ajax is something you do on the front-end, at the Javascript level. A faraday request is made from the back-end, using Ruby. You'll use Ajax for public APIs & to present information to your users directly. You'll use an HTTP request from the back-end to work with private APIs (those that require an API key) & to save the results of that API request to your database.