Question

I’ve been wondering about the way to get both class and instance methods into a module, and then including that module into a model.

I’ve got it working with other examples, but I am struggling to understand where to correctly place the include HTTPparty.

Below is the details of where I am at:

module Vimeo

  def self.included(base)
    base.extend(ClassMethods)
  end

  module ClassMethods

   class Base      
     include HTTParty
     base_uri 'vimeo.com/api/v2'
     headers 'Content-Type' => 'application/json' 
   end

   class VimeoUser < Base

    def vimeo_account(account_name)
      @id = account_name
    end

   end

 end

   def info
     Vimeo::Base.get("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/#{@id}/info.json")
   end

end

with the goal of attaching it to a User model using: include Vimeo
and being able to call:

User.vimeo_account("name")

as well as

user = User.new
user.info

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I think calling get in the following way should solve the problem.

def info
  Vimeo::Base.class.get("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/#{@id}/info.json")
end

But to me it seems like you can have a simpler setup as below:
(unless there is more which I don’t understand)

   class VimeoUser
     include HTTParty
     base_uri 'vimeo.com/api/v2'
     headers 'Content-Type' => 'application/json' 

   // All vimeo user related methods here, such that self.class.get etc is possible.
   end