BASIC-Belic / slack-api-consumer

In-class Exercise: Work within a Ruby on Rails project to consume and use an existing external API

Slack API Consumer LiveCode

This starter code has the starter code for a demo of using (consuming) the Slack API.

Learning Goals

This project is designed to help students learn to:

• Query an existing API (Slack API) in a Rails Web App
• Create library classes & wrappers to interact with the API
• Use HTTParty to query an API
• Use VCR to test a Rails API App