Using Rest Client for Seeding Database

• RESTClient

  4 5,234 0.0 Ruby

  Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.

  

The Met has a really robust API of their collection - over 470,000 distinct objects! Talk about a lot of data! I needed to figure out how to get at least a sampling of this data into my backend API. I found just what I was looking for in RestClient. In theory it is super easy to use and I will give a few quick steps below. I say in theory because I think it depends on how well set up the API is that you are pulling your data from. If you are wondering, the Met's was really easy sometimes and really hard others - some of the art objects were missing attributes that I wanted to pull so I had hand hold my seed file during some of the departments. For brevity sake, I will use one of the easier bit of data to pull - the Met's list of departments. (seeding the art objects themselves was another story all together!)

• art-start-back-end

  1 0 1.8 Ruby

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For a more complicated use case, I will write next about seeding the artwork objects associated with each department - stay tuned :) And please let me know if you have any suggestions about using Rest Client. My seed file can be found here: ArtStart - Back-end

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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