BOSO - Best of Stack Overflow

This app displays the top questions on Stack Overflow (along with their tags, author names and 1 answer).

For questions that have an accepted answer, it displays that. For those that don't, but have multiple answers, it displays the top answer.

To see a live demo, check it out here: http://boso.herokuapp.com

Getting Started

The first thing you need to do is to create an initializer for Serel with your Stack Exchange API Key (get it from here - https://api.stackexchange.com/).

An example looks like this:

config/initializers/serel.rb

Serel::Base.config(:stackoverflow, 'some-API-key')

Setup DB & Gems

Run bundle install

Run rake db:migrate

Then run rake db:seed

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That gives you a database with 1 question, 1 answer & 1 tag.

Getting the Top Questions from SO

Launch your console - rails c

Run Question.update_top_questions....which will take a long time....because it is pulling all the top questions and their answers & tags.

Run it a handful of times, much quicker

In lib\question_fetcher.rb, change the pagesize() value to just 1 in self.fetch_top_questions. i.e. change:

def self.fetch_top_questions(page_num)
  top_questions = Serel::Question.filter(:withbody).pagesize(100).page(page_num).sort('votes').get
end

to

def self.fetch_top_questions(page_num)
  top_questions = Serel::Question.filter(:withbody).pagesize(1).page(page_num).sort('votes').get
end

Also at line 41 of question.rb, change the loop from 20.times do to 1.time do.

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