Can't get Yelp API to display Business ID in Rails

Question

I'm trying to use the Yelp API to display a business' id

I installed the Yelp Gem as well as added my code to the initializer under Yelp.rb

client = Yelp::Client.new({ consumer_key: 'n8jpEPZJkbXwqAw',
                            consumer_secret: 'ABuZv6OW0iVTqPD5irr4',
                            token: 'AjYSuqleh0Ihb',
                            token_secret: 'wWaBdFu_dFXqbFc'
                          })

After that I went to a controller and added this

 def reviews
    Yelp.client.search(‘San Francisco’)

  end

I then tried to call the @reviews in the views and nothing is displaying

<%= @reviews.id %>

Any advice would be great thanks!

Answer 1

You need to save the response from the search call:

response = Yelp.client.search('San Francisco')

Then you can access the results in the array of businesses returned in response . For example, to get the rating of the first business returned:

response.businesses[0].rating

You asked for the business ID, which of course is:

response.businesses[0].id