Rails - Apr 2006 - Using Rails and the Flickr API

Hi all,

Week 2 of my Rails experience and I''m loving life!

This is one of my first times consuming a web service, but the Rails 
demo made the process very exciting... I followed along with the video 
and have my own little Flickr search up and running!  Woo hoo!

So now I want to do a bunch of other things to it and I''m struggling...
excuse my ignorance, but is there some extensive Ruby/Rails/Flickr 
document somewhere?  I''d like to get some clues about how all the 
different pieces fit together:

flickr.photos.search - 
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html

flickr_controller.rb -

class FlickrController < ApplicationController
  def search
    flickr = Flickr.new ''API_KEY''
    render :partial => "photo", :collection =>
      flickr.photos(:tags => params[:tags], :per_page =>
''24'')
  end
end

views/flickr/index.rhtml -

<%= form_remote_tag :url => {:action => ''search''},
:update => ''photos'',
      :complete => visual_effect(:blind_down, ''photos''),
      :before   => %(Element.show(''spinner'')),
      :success  => %(Element.hide(''spinner'')) %>

  <%= image_tag ''/images/spinner.gif'', :id =>
''spinner'', :style =>
''display: none'' %>

  <fieldset>
	<label for="tags">Tags:</label>
	<%= text_field_tag ''tags'' %>
	<%= submit_tag ''Find'' %>
  </fieldset>

  <div id="photos" style="display: none"></div>
<%= end_form_tag %>

views/flickr/_photo.rhtml -

<a href="<%= photo.sizes[0][''source'']
%>"><img class="photo" src="<%=
photo.sizes[0][''source''] %>" /></a>

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