beer_mapping_project.rb

require 'httparty'
require 'cgi'
require 'dotenv'
require_relative 'brewery'

Dotenv.load

# example call:
# breweries = BeerMappingProject.new.city_search("Boston")
# breweries is an array of Brewery objects
class BeerMappingProject
  include HTTParty

  base_uri 'http://beermapping.com/webservice'

  def initialize(key=ENV['BEER_MAPPING_API_KEY'])
    @key = key

    if @key.nil?
      raise 'No API key for the BeerMappingProject!'
    end
  end

  # search breweries by name
  def name_search(query)
    get('locquery', query)
  end

  # search breweries by city
  def city_search(query)
    get('loccity', query)
  end

  # search breweries by state
  def state_search(query)
    get('locstate', query)
  end

  # builds the endpoint url
  # calls the HTTParty.get method
  # returns an array of Brewery objects
  def get(service, query)
    escaped_query = CGI::escape(query)
    api_response = self.class.get("/#{service}/#{@key}/#{escaped_query}")
    api_results = api_response["bmp_locations"]["location"]
    brewify(api_results)
  end

  # builds a Brewery based on records return from api call
  def brewify(results)
    breweries = []
    results.each do |attributes|
      breweries << Brewery.new(attributes)
    end
    breweries
  end
end

brewery.rb

# map hash to object
class Brewery
  def initialize(attributes)
    @beer_mapping_project_id = attributes["id"]
    @name = attributes["name"]
    @type = attributes["status"]
    @address = attributes["street"]
    @city = attributes["city"]
    @state = attributes["state"]
    @zip = attributes["zip"]
    @country = attributes["country"]
    @phone_number = attributes["phone"]
    @review_url = attributes["reviewlink"]
    @map_link = attributes["proxylink"]
  end
end

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