I keep getting "NameError: uninitialized constant"

[LookToTheLeft]

I don't know why. But for some reason when I try to put in code like "details = Openlibrary::Details" or "library_client = Openlibrary::Client.new" I can an error saying it's an uninitialized constant.

What's even stranger is that other things like "Openlibrary::Data" or "Openlibrary::View" work perfectly fine and that's just confusing me even further. Does anyone have a solution for this?

[tylercrocker]

I'm just writing my own... this gem hasn't been touched in 4 years. If what I come up with is more than a few dozen lines maybe I'll punch something up. It's a pretty simple set of endpoints though, so I'm not sure how relevant it'll be.

[tylercrocker]

Yeah, @LookToTheLeft I just wrote this up:

class OpenLibrary::Client
  API_URL = 'https://openlibrary.org'

  def initialize
  end

  def request(the_path)
    path = the_path.include?('.json') ? the_path : "#{the_path}.json"
    resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("#{API_URL}#{path}"))
    raise 'FAILED' unless resp.code == '200'

    JSON.parse(resp.body)
  end

  def author olid
    request("/authors/#{olid}")
  end

  def work olid
    request("/works/#{olid}")
  end

  def book olid
    request("/books/#{olid}")
  end

  def search query: nil, author: nil, title: nil
    q = []
    q << "q=#{query}" unless query.blank?
    q << "author=#{author}" unless author.blank?
    q << "title=#{title}" unless title.blank?
    request("/search.json?#{q.join('&')}")
  end
end

Generally does what I need, I'm sure I'll add to it as I go, but it gets me started.

You DO have to interact with everything as the raw JSON, but I'm not personally worried about that.

Let me know if you need something more involved I guess?

As a note, there's a TON of random caching, pagination, and other things that could be added onto this. It's definitely not a full fledged setup.