This weekend someone tweeted me asking if esv.jeffmcfadden.com was down temporarily or permanently.
The site had actually been down ever since I moved my website off of PHP (a long time ago). I hadn’t bothered to bring the site back, mostly out of laziness/busyness.
Having a couple hours of free time I figured now was as good a time as any to bring the site back. From doing some research a while ago I knew I’d end up writing my own ESV API gem because what was already out there wasn’t really what I was looking for.
I wanted a gem I could easily drop into my rails app that wrapped all the methods in the API in a dead-simple and straightforward way. It needed to work with rails 3.1 on ruby 1.9. I wanted to be able to call the api and get html back that I could just drop into a view.
After a couple of hours I came up with esv_api. To test it out I threw together a quick rails app for the esv site and dropped it onto Heroku.
If you use the gem or find it helpful I’d love to hear from you.