Extract Info from TMDB and save to Rails DB

Question

I have a rails movie app and the movie info that will be featured on the site will be from TMDB.

Using the TMDB-Ruby gem, i can already produce results (info) from a movie, but now i need to know how to extract that returned info and save it to my database.

So if i run

TmdbMovie.find(:title => "fight club", :limit => 10, :expand_results => true, :language => "en")

in the rails console, it will show me info about that movie.

So How can I, from that returned info, create a new movie and save say the :title and the :description

Answer 1

Looking at the documentation you can do it like this assuming you have a Movie class with the appropriate migrations for title and description.

movie = TmdbMovie.find(:title => "Iron Man", :limit => 1)
@movie.title = movie.title
@movie.description = movie.description # Not sure if the returned data contains a description 
@movie.save

EDIT~ In update to below comment.

Let's say you have your MovieController and a user is a searching for the movie through a search field which would be in params[:search] and the movie returned would be stored in the database. If this is being done in the index action it would look like below.

def index
  movie = TmdbMovie.find(:title => params[:search], :limit => 1)
  @movie = Movie.new
  @movie.title = movie.title
  @movie.description - movie.description
  @movie.save
end