I''m trying to develop a Facebook application in Rails that allows users to look up certain products on Amazon. I know Amazon has Amazon Web Services, and I thought this would give me a clue as to how to proceed, but it so far appears those services are highly specific. ? I''m totally lost here. How should I go about allowing users to use my application to search and retrieve records from Amazon.com? I saw other Facebook applications use Amazon for searching for books (although I have no idea what language was used; but that shouldn''t matter), so there must be some way to pull this off. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
R. Elliott Mason wrote:> I''m trying to develop a Facebook application in Rails that allows users > to look up certain products on Amazon. I know Amazon has Amazon Web > Services, and I thought this would give me a clue as to how to proceed, > but it so far appears those services are highly specific. ? I''m totally > lost here. How should I go about allowing users to use my application > to search and retrieve records from Amazon.com? I saw other Facebook > applications use Amazon for searching for books (although I have no idea > what language was used; but that shouldn''t matter), so there must be > some way to pull this off. >You probably want to investigate one of the Ruby/Amazon libraries, such as Ruby/Amazon (www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-amazon.shtml) to get the data from Amazon. Serving it up to Facebook users should be very similar to serving to ordinary users. -- ---------------------------- Autopendium :: Stuff about old cars http://autopendium.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Hmm, it seems like Ruby/Amazon is outdated with the most recent API, although maybe the source code will provide some clues as to how to about the design otherwise. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---