Simple data modeling using Active Record

At the end of Phase 1 of the Flatiron School software engineering course, we were assigned a solo project to show what we have learned about Ruby and Active Record in the first two or three weeks of the course. This project requires building a simple data analytics app that seeds its data from an external API through Active Record migrations.

The first challenge is finding an API data source that we will later use to seed our database. I searching google for public open APIs, I came across a website called any-api.com. This API directory was just what I needed…