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delight.fm: day 16

Regaining lost momentum

Had some things come up at work recently and got off track with my side project routine. Finally got back into it today and it felt like I had totally lost my place. Didn’t make much progress, but I’m trying not to get discouraged…

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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…

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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…

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delight.fm: day 12

Adding artists

I worked on adding artists today. My initial plan was to use the data that Spotify provides on the artists that you’re following. But alas, it’s not that easy.

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delight.fm: day 11

Adding albums

I’m getting some real data from Spotify now. I started by pulling the saved albums and it didn’t work as expected. I thought that the saved albums endpoint would include every album where I’ve saved a song, but it seems like it only includes the…

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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! 🎉

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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