Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
How can I create a form/page in Rails that will let me input search parameters, which are then passed to an external API to perform the search, and then display those results in some custom pretty format?
Note, I am not asking how to consume the external service, just how to plumb a form page and a pretty results page to this search request.
This won’t be an external facing page, it’s just a tool I want to use to make data collection easier.
Assuming that your destination adheres to RESTful practices, ActiveResource is probably the best tool for the job. You can find some documentation on it here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveResource/Base.html