Amazon is by far the biggest online retailer in the world. Founded in 1994, it's been growing from a small garage startup to a multinational sales and technology leader for 25 years. As such, the amount of data about the products they sell on their marketplaces is enormous, and this is not something they chose not to share. The sales giant …
Ruby API Tutorials
How to Build a RESTful API in Ruby
Every major online service nowadays offers an API. Shorthand for Application Programming Interface, it provides developers programmatic access to the service. There are different types of APIs, but most boil down to RESTful, JSON APIs. If you're planning on building an app, adding an API should definitely be in your roadmap. In this article, …
How To Use an API with Ruby on Rails (Beginner’s Guide)
On August 15, Ruby on Rails released its version 6, making even more features available to developers. The 13-year-old framework gives you a plethora of tools out of the box, which allows building complete applications in a very short time. With adapters for almost all database systems available, you don't need much else. If, however, you need to …