Improving your Ruby experience
Create a .irbrc file with the following contents:
require 'irbtools'
require "awesome_print"
AwesomePrint.irb!Now when you get output you can have it nicely printed by "awesome-print". For example:
g> irb
Welcome to IRB. You are using ruby 2.1.3p242 (2014-09-19 revision 47630) [x86_64-linux-gnu]. Have fun ;)
>> require 'canvas-api'
true
>> canvas = Canvas::API.new(:host => "https://kth.instructure.com", :token => "8..K")
#Look at the list of folders:
>> canvas.get("/api/v1/courses/11/folders")
[
[0] {
"id" => 224,
"name" => "course files",
"full_name" => "course files",
"context_id" => 11,
"context_type" => "Course",
"parent_folder_id" => nil,
"created_at" => "2016-06-10T08:16:13Z",
"updated_at" => "2016-06-10T08:16:13Z",
"lock_at" => nil,
"unlock_at" => nil,
"position" => nil,
"locked" => false,
"folders_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/224/folders",
"files_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/224/files",
"files_count" => 9,
"folders_count" => 6,
"hidden" => nil,
"locked_for_user" => false,
"hidden_for_user" => false,
"for_submissions" => false
},
[1] {
"id" => 343,
"name" => "GQM-test-20160623c",
"full_name" => "course files/GQM-test-20160623c",
"context_id" => 11,
"context_type" => "Course",
"parent_folder_id" => 224,
"created_at" => "2016-06-22T17:58:57Z",
"updated_at" => "2016-06-22T17:58:57Z",
"lock_at" => nil,
"unlock_at" => nil,
"position" => 16,
"locked" => false,
"folders_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/343/folders",
"files_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/343/files",
"files_count" => 3,
"folders_count" => 0,
"hidden" => nil,
"locked_for_user" => false,
"hidden_for_user" => false,
"for_submissions" => false
},
[2] {
"id" => 314,
"name" => "II2202-Fall-2014",
"full_name" => "course files/II2202-Fall-2014",
"context_id" => 11,
"context_type" => "Course",
"parent_folder_id" => 224,
"created_at" => "2016-06-21T05:14:47Z",
"updated_at" => "2016-06-21T05:14:47Z",
"lock_at" => nil,
"unlock_at" => nil,
"position" => 3,
"locked" => false,
"folders_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/314/folders",
"files_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/314/files",
"files_count" => 1,
"folders_count" => 0,
"hidden" => nil,
"locked_for_user" => false,
"hidden_for_user" => false,
"for_submissions" => false
},
[3] {
"id" => 311,
"name" => "II2202-Fall-2015",
"full_name" => "course files/II2202-Fall-2015",
"context_id" => 11,
"context_type" => "Course",
"parent_folder_id" => 224,
"created_at" => "2016-06-20T12:15:10Z",
"updated_at" => "2016-06-20T12:15:10Z",
"lock_at" => nil,
"unlock_at" => nil,
"position" => 2,
"locked" => false,
"folders_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/311/folders",
"files_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/311/files",
"files_count" => 5,
"folders_count" => 0,
"hidden" => nil,
"locked_for_user" => false,
"hidden_for_user" => false,
"for_submissions" => false
},
[4] {
"id" => 283,
"name" => "II2202-Fall-2016",
"full_name" => "course files/II2202-Fall-2016",
"context_id" => 11,
"context_type" => "Course",
"parent_folder_id" => 224,
"created_at" => "2016-06-15T12:13:51Z",
"updated_at" => "2016-06-15T12:13:51Z",
"lock_at" => nil,
"unlock_at" => nil,
"position" => 1,
"locked" => false,
"folders_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/283/folders",
"files_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/283/files",
"files_count" => 1,
"folders_count" => 0,
"hidden" => nil,
"locked_for_user" => false,
"hidden_for_user" => false,
"for_submissions" => false
},
[5] {
"id" => 321,
"name" => "Test-folder",
"full_name" => "course files/Test-folder",
"context_id" => 11,
"context_type" => "Course",
"parent_folder_id" => 224,
"created_at" => "2016-06-21T13:23:42Z",
"updated_at" => "2016-06-21T13:23:42Z",
"lock_at" => nil,
"unlock_at" => nil,
"position" => 4,
"locked" => false,
"folders_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/321/folders",
"files_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/321/files",
"files_count" => 0,
"folders_count" => 0,
"hidden" => nil,
"locked_for_user" => false,
"hidden_for_user" => false,
"for_submissions" => false
},
[6] {
"id" => 348,
"name" => "unfiled",
"full_name" => "course files/unfiled",
"context_id" => 11,
"context_type" => "Course",
"parent_folder_id" => 224,
"created_at" => "2016-06-23T03:10:06Z",
"updated_at" => "2016-06-23T03:10:06Z",
"lock_at" => nil,
"unlock_at" => nil,
"position" => 20,
"locked" => false,
"folders_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/348/folders",
"files_url" => "https://kth.instructure.com/api/v1/folders/348/files",
"files_count" => 1,
"folders_count" => 0,
"hidden" => nil,
"locked_for_user" => false,
"hidden_for_user" => false,
"for_submissions" => false
}
]
>>
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