Functions to Access Quotes (Random, Tags, Author)

[nelsonic]

It's all well and good having a quotes.json file with a bunch of quotes.
But how are we going to access those quotes from Elixir?!

Story

As a person wanting to use thought-provoking quotes in my project,
I need an easy way of getting a single quote to display
so that the users of my app can be inspired/motivated to get stuff done!

Todo

• Create an Elixir Module that has functions for returning a single quote:
  • random - get a random quote for any author or topic Quotes.random()
  • random_by_tag - get a random quote by a specific tag e.g: Quotes.tag("time")
  • author - get a random quote by a specific author e.g: Quotes.author("Einstein")
• Helpers:
  • Quotes.parse_json() - opens quotes.json and parse it's contents into a List of Map.
  • Utils.count - returns the count of quotes, useful in testing Quotes.parse_json 👍

[nelsonic]

It's just occurred to me that if we execute a Quotes.random_by_tag function
and no match is found, will it explode...?