Natalie ArellanoVanessa Dean

Tuesday, July 8

Flatiron School Presents

FOMO No Mo’

FOMO

Other Events Happening Tonight

(you made the right choice)

API Requests

Request URL for members from Flatiron Presents

https://api.meetup.com/2/members?group_id=14306982&key=1afad6758asdfb3q4f

Request URL for events that the member’s groups are hosting in the next week

https://api.meetup.com/2/events?&sign=true&photo-host=public&member_id=9053050&time=1404858600000,%201405463400000

&page=20&key=1afad6758asdfb3q4f

Net::HTTP.get(“https://api.meetup.com/2/events?&sign=true&photo-host=public&member_id=9053050& time=1404858600000,%201405463400000&key=1afad6758asdfb3q4f")

YIKES!

JSON.parse(Net::HTTP.get(events_request_uri))

Ruby

FTW!

Data Structure

railroady -M | dot -Tpng > models.png

Schema

InitializationMember.all.sample(3).each do |member| my_hash["results"].each do |result|

# create the event if not exists event = Event.find_or_create_by(:name => result["name"], :date => result["time"], :url => result["event_url"])

# create the group if not exists, and assign it to the event event.group = Group.find_or_create_by(:name => result["group"]["name"], :urlname => result["group"]["urlname"])

# assign the group color -- assign color is defined on Group event.group.assign_color

# add the current member to the group if not already a member event.group.members << member unless event.group.members.include?(member)

# add the event date based on the time in milliseconds given by Meetup event.assign_date(Time.at(event.date.to_i/1000).to_date) endend

def assign_date(new_date) my_date = EventDate.find_or_create_by(event_date: new_date) self.event_date = my_dateend

DEMO

Lessons Learned

• APIs can be demystified

• Objects make things easier

• Value of collaboration

Next Steps We Could Take

• Add ability to choose the seed group (instead of always sampling from Flatiron Presents members)

• Let user sign in with their Meetup account and choose groups they are a part of

• Add filters, e.g. narrow search results by location, pizza == true

Questions?

Thanks!

We are:

Natalie Arellanonatalie.p.arellano@gmail.com

and

Vanessa Deanvanessa.dean@gmail.com