Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks

Setting Up and Running the API

The prerequisites for running the API are Ruby and Bundler, a Ruby library package manager.

Installing Prerequisites

Here are the steps to be ready to run the API:

• Install Ruby. If you don’t already have Ruby installed, find instructions on the Ruby website.^[14] The code has been tested against Ruby 2.3 on OS X El Capitán. On Windows, due to an issue with Ruby and Windows, only Ruby 2.0 is tested. If you’re using Windows, you may want to use RubyInstaller and DevKit.^{[15] [16]}

• Install Bundler.^[17] Bundler is a RubyGem, so once you have Ruby installed, you can execute gem install bundler from the command line.

On Mac, I also recommend using a Ruby version manager, such as rvm. The project is set up to work with ...