Morbotron

A ruby wrapper to interact with Morbotron.com API based on Ben Lewis's post: Wrapping Your API In A Custom Ruby Gem.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'morbotron', '~> 0.0.2'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install morbotron -v 0.0.2

There are a couple ways to get screencaps from the Morbotron API through this gem.

You can get an array of screencaps that match a specific search term:

Morbotron::Screencap.search("We're making beer")

And you can get a random screencap from the aforementioned array of screencaps:

Morbotron::Screencap.random("We're making beer")

After getting a screencap object, you now have easy access to the attributes: id, episode and timestamp.

The Morbotron::Screencap object also gives you access to some helper methods to make your life easier.

There's the image_url method that returns a valid image url based on the episode and timestamp information returned by the API.

The caption method hits the API's caption endpoint and returns a string of the original screencap's caption.

And finally, there's the meme_url. When used without params, this returns the original caption overlaid on top of the image.

You can also customize the image by overlaying your own captions on top of the image like so:

screencap.meme_url("We're making beer")

Or multiple lines of text like so:

screencap.meme_url(["We're making beer. I'm the brewery.", "I heard alcohol makes you stupid."])

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/chanko/morbotron. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.