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##Ruby Microframeworks for Web Development

1. What is a web framework?

• Brief intro
• Across languages (Rails, Django, etc.)

2. Rails The not-so-micro-framework

• Rails
• Rails upsides and downsides

3. What is a microframework?

• Sinatra (ruby darling, prob 2nd most well known)
• Includes DSL's

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##
## TOKEN/API KEY AUTHENTICATION
## This was based on blogger-advanced
## Continuing from the class we built this in...
## if not already done, you'll need to make an ApiKey table in the DB 'rails g model ApiKey token:string'
##

# app/controllers/api/v1/articles_controller.rb
class Api::V1::ArticlesController < ApplicationController
  #...

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##
## HTTP:Basic AUTHENTICATION
## This was based on blogger-advanced
## Continuing from the class we built this in...
##
 
# app/controllers/api/v1/articles_controller.rb
class Api::V1::ArticlesController < ApplicationController
  #...
  before_action :authenticate

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##
## TOKEN/API KEY AUTHENTICATION
## This was based on blogger-advanced
## Continuing from the class we built this in...
## if not already done, you'll need to make an ApiKey table in the DB 'rails g model ApiKey token:string'
## Add a new column to the ApiKey table to associate a key with an author 
##   'rails g migration add-author-to-api-key author:references'
##

# app/controllers/application_controller.rb

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API Endpoints (/api/v1/...)

• /poverty/map(?year=2014) (state geo.json data with any coloring/shading options applied (maybe a color intensity?)
• /poverty/markers(?year=2014) (any individual points or markers we want on/in the states, possible year filter)
• /poverty (general data set information (data set name, updated_at, avail. years, etc))
• /poverty/state/tweets (last 50 tweets within predefined poverty twitter hashtags) OR /poverty/tweets?state=XX
• /poverty/state/tweets/sentiment (sentiment scale score of last 2000 tweets)
• /poverty/state/data(?year-2014) (more chosen state data, for example actual numbers/%'s, that could be overlaid on state)
• /poverty/state/images (if we wanted to pull in instagram photos)

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#Flexible Data Storage: Polymorphism, and Serialization, and HStore, oh my!

###Story/Example App

• Sample app showing an example use case
• User profile with an unlimited number of custom attributes

###Question: How would you setup your database to record this information?

###Options

• Polymorphism (1 sentence overview)

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require 'pry'

class FileReader
  def self.input_filename
    ARGV[0]
  end
  
  def read
    filename = FileReader.input_filename
    File.read(filename)