We finished the API features for the Rails project and did a bit of refactoring. As the feature set grew, it made more sense to rename refactor the namespace, methods, etc. We also used extract method refactoring to move methods into a new module where it made more sense. The final piece of this is to write a script that will use the API methods to retrieve customer information and update the database with that information. We tried creating a script that was placed in the script folder, but unfortunately could not require the API module we created. We may look into creating a Rake task and have Rake load the Rails environment. I'll have to look into how Rake tasks work. This will go live next Monday, so I'm a bit excited and nervous. I look forward to putting on the finishing touch tomorrow and run a quick demo with Paul.
I forgot to mention yesterday Matt and I worked on some XML data and used Ruby's standard library, rexml, to do the job. It's actually fairly easy library to use. The entire xml is stored in an elements hash and by providing it the XPath, it will return the element(s).
Unfortunately, I didn't make head way in the Node.js, HTML5 reading as I hoped. I guess I'm a little burned out from the week, but I look forward to working on our Node.js Knockout project this weekend. Apologies for the short blog post, but I will have lots to talk about after this weekend.