delight.fm: day 10

Persisting… a hash

A couple days ago, I was stuck with an issue that I was having integrating some third-party code into my project. Happy to say I got unstuck! 🎉

delight.fm: day 1

Getting started

Started in on my next 6-week project today. Always fun to start something new. Did some mockups in Balsamiq. I’ll try to show some of the interesting bits tomorrow.

delight.fm: day 13

Working with jobs

I’m retrieving artist and album data successfully, but it’s taking a while to process. The tracks in a Spotify library are retrieved in batches and then processed to extract the other parts (artists/albums). Works great. The problem is that…

delight.fm: day 8

Working with third-party code

I started preparing to retrieve album information today. Logging in with Spotify is working well and I need to figure out how to reconnect when needed to in order to do things besides just log in.

delight.fm: days 14 & 15

UI updates and importing new albums

Yesterday I worked on some design updates. Now that the artist importing is working, I discovered that there are occasionally artists who don’t have an image available. Or at least it’s not coming…

delight.fm: day 2

Planning my todo list

I’m trying to keep my planning phase short in order to maximize my development time.

I started with some simple mockups in Balsamiq. Beginning with the home page, I added content, buttons, and links until I…

delight.fm: day 6

Signing in

Yesterday I connected the application to Spotify and it returned some basic data. Today I worked on letting the visitor know that they’re signed in and showing them something different.

delight.fm: day 7

Signing out

Today I added the ability to sign out of my application. Pretty straightforward. I simply removed the session variable that I added yesterday to to indicate that the user was logged in, then sending them back to the home page, which shows different…

delight.fm: day 5

Oauth connected

I was able to authenticate with Spotify today. Turned out I had to use an older version of the omniauth-oauth2 gem. So now you can click on the Sign in with Spotify button and you’re sent to Spotify to give permission to access your account…

delight.fm: day 9

Stuck in the mud

Spent my time today trying to debug my issue with the rspotify gem. I’m able to query Spotify data after the initial authentication callback, but I’m having trouble when I try to persist the hash of user information and use it a second time.