The City Ruby Gem

A Ruby interface to the The City API. For more information about The City platform, see http://api.onthecity.org

gem install thecity

The City API requires you to authenticate via OAuth, so you'll need to register your application with The City under the Admin | API panel.

Your new application will be assigned a key/secret pair (app_id/app_secret). You'll need to configure these values before you make a request or else you'll get the error:

Bad Authentication data

You can pass configuration options as a block to TheCity::API::Client.new.

client = TheCity::API::Client.new do |config|
  config.app_id        = "YOUR_APP_ID"
  config.app_secret    = "YOUR_APP_SECRET"
  config.access_token  = "OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN"
end

or

client = TheCity::API::Client.new
client.app_id        = "YOUR_APP_ID"
client.app_secret    = "YOUR_APP_SECRET"
client.access_token  = "OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN"

Alternately, you can set the following environment variables:

THECITY_APP_ID
THECITY_APP_SECRET
THECITY_ACCESS_TOKEN
THECITY_SUBDOMAIN

All examples require an authenticated TheCity client with a valid access_token. See the section on configuration.

After configuration, requests can be made like so:

Get the authenticated user (current user)

client.me

Post a topic

client.post_topic(:group_id => 1234567, :title => 'Mr. Watson, come here', :body => 'I want to see you.')

Fetch the groups the current user belongs to

client.my_groups

For more usage examples, please see the full documentation.

http://rdoc.info/github/thecity/thecity

You should follow @thecity and @thecity_status on Twitter for announcements and updates about this library.

For more in depth discussiong regarding The City app platform and APIs, please join the 'API' group on Builders.

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The Faraday middleware stack is fully configurable and is exposed as a Faraday::Builder object. You can modify the default middleware in-place:

client.middleware.insert_after TheCity::Response::RaiseError, CustomMiddleware

A custom adapter may be set as part of a custom middleware stack:

client.middleware = Faraday::Builder.new(
  &Proc.new do |builder|
    # Specify a middleware stack here
    builder.adapter :some_other_adapter
  end
)

We use the GitHub issue tracker to track bugs and features. Before submitting a bug report or feature request, check to make sure it hasn't already been submitted. When submitting a bug report, please include a Gist that includes a stack trace and any details that may be necessary to reproduce the bug, including your gem version, Ruby version, and operating system. Ideally, a bug report should include a pull request with failing specs.

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a topic branch.
3. Preferably, add specs for your unimplemented feature or bug fix.
4. Run bundle exec rake spec. If your specs pass, return to step 3.
5. Implement your feature or bug fix.
6. Run bundle exec rake spec. If your specs fail, return to step 5.
7. Add documentation for your feature or bug fix.
8. Run bundle exec rake yard.
9. Commit and push your changes.
10. Submit a pull request.

Copyright (c) 2013 Robert Leib. See LICENSE for details.