API Clients In Ruby From Scratch

API clients are a for web applications to interact with each other. In this series, we'll learn how to build our own clients for any API from scratch using plain Ruby. No rubygems needed!

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5 Lessons | 1h 45m | Intermediate

32m

Net Http API Client from Scratch

Feb 20, 2023 Pro

In this episode we will look at using Ruby's built-in Net::HTTP class to build API clients for making http requests.

15m

Extracting Reusable Base Classes In Ruby

If you're building something with shared functionality, extracting a base class can be helpful to create a shared place each class can inherit from. We'll explore how to do this for our API clients and one of the tricky things about accessing constants.

18m

Testing HTTP Requests with Webmock

Mar 07, 2023 Pro

In this episode we will look at how to use Webmock to test our API Clients.

22m

Custom Rails Generators for API Clients

Mar 13, 2023 Pro

In this episode we will look at how to make and use custom Rails generators to create new API clients.

15m

oEmbed Client From Scratch

Jan 12, 2026 Pro Coming soon

oEmbed is an awesome API standard for embedding content from websites. We can build an oEmbed client in Ruby from scratch with just a few lines of code.

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