Michelle - Edges - API-Muncher

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API Muncher

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
How did you go about exploring the Edamam API, and how did you try querying the API?	I heavily relied on Postman for these stages. I also consulted the documentation.
What is an API Wrapper? Why is it in lib? How would your project change if you needed to interact with more than one API (aka more than just the Edamam API)?	An API wrapper interfaces between the API-provider endpoint and my controller. It is in 'lib' because it is not associated with the controller or model. If I needed to interact with more than one API, I'd need to create multiple API wrappers.
Describe your API wrapper, the methods you created in it, and why you decided to create those methods/how they were helpful	My API wrapper can grab (up to 100) queries based on a search term. It can also show a single recipe based on a unique identifier. A third method passes takes the API hash as input and creates an instance or instances of Recipe.
What was an edge case or failure case test you wrote for your API Wrapper? What was a nominal case?	A nominal case includes returning a single recipe instance using valid unique identifier input. An edge case includes returning an error message when trying to enter an invalid unique identifier as an address. I definitely could have thought of more edge cases (like maybe a blank input for the search).
How does VCR aid in testing an API?	It 'records' the API data as fixtures the first time you run it. Moving forward, you won't need to make potentially-costly API calls as it's all been stored for you.
What is the Heroku URL of your deployed application?	http://mc-muncher.herokuapp.com/

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API Muncher

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	✅
Comprehension questions	✅
General
Rails fundamentals (RESTful routing, use of named paths)	✅
Semantic HTML	✅
Errors are reported to the user	✅
API Wrapper to handle the API requests	✅
Controller testing	✅
Lib testing	✅
Search Functionality	✅
List Functionality	✅
Show individual item functionality	✅
Styling
List view shows 10 items at a time and/or has pagination	✅
Attractive and usable UI	✅
API Features
The App attributes Edamam	✅
The VCR cassettes do not contain the API key	✅
External Resources
Link to deployed app on Heroku	✅
Overall	Looks great!