How to create a custom API connector in Ruby

In the How to use the httparty Ruby gem section, we walked through the httparty Ruby gem segment and we discussed how to integrate built-in classes from the gem to call an API. If you need something more specific, it's a good idea to create a separate class to manage the API processes. That's what we are going to do here while still leveraging some of the key modules supplied by HTTParty:

require 'rubygems'   
require 'httparty'

class StackExchange
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'api.stackexchange.com'
end 

In this code, we created a class called StackExchange. As the first step, we included the HTTParty module so that this class can access the methods provided by the gem. Next, we set base_uri, which is the Stack Exchange API URI's path.

Since this is a custom class, let's create an initializer...