producthunt/sharemeowclient

A Ruby client for ShareMeow :heart_eyes_cat:

sharemeowclient's Issues

What's the recommended way to pre-generate an image when using a CDN?

Generating images on-the-fly is great, but can be a little bit slow at times. Using a CDN helps, but not for the initial request.

Is there a recommended way to 'ping' the ShareMeow app through the CDN (e.g. a simple GET request) so it starts generating the image and can be loaded from the CDN cache the next request?

A simple open(url) would work, but for large images it seems wasteful waiting for the full response.

Setting config to nil produces cryptic error message

When setting the config variables to nil you'll receive the following error when calling .image_url:

!! #<TypeError: no implicit conversion of nil into String>

I ran into this problem, because I'm using ENV variables in my initializer and accidentally forgot to set a value. This results in the ShareMeow config variables being set no nil, overriding the defaults and .image_url producing the cryptic error above.

Fortunately there's a limited codebase here so debugging this is rather painless, but I still think a more descriptive error message when calling .image_url or using nil as a configuration value would be handy.