From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-04-28T03:10:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Shipping for Ruby

On 4/27/05, Lucas Carlson <lucas@rufy.com> wrote:
> Shipping is a module that connects APIs for various shippers like UPS
> and FedEx. It is available as a ruby gem:
> 
> gem install shipping
> 
> or from rubyforge
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/shipping
> 
> There is going to be some data that will persist for all shipments. For
> example, you will not want to repeat the fedex account number every
> time in your implementation code. To set default values, setup a file
> called .shipping.yml in the home directory of the user who will be
> using this library. An example file would be:
> 
>     fedex_url: https://url/to/fedex/api
>     fedex_account: 1234556
>     fedex_meter: 387878
> 
>     ups_account: 7B4F74E3075AEEFF
>     ups_user: username
>     ups_password: password
> 
> You can set as many default values as you would like in this file.
> 
>     require 'shipping'
> 
>     ups = Shipping::UPS.new :zip => 97202, :sender_zip => 10001,
> :weight => 2
>     ups.price => 8.77
>     ups.valid_address? => false
> 
>     ups.city = "Portland"
>     ups.valid_address? => true
> 
> Alternately, you can instantiate the base class and then see both UPS
> and FedEx information.
> 
>     ship = Shipping::Base.new :zip => 97202, :state => "OR",
> :sender_zip => 10001, :weight => 2
>     ship.ups.price => 8.77
>     ship.fedex.price => 5.17
> 
>     ship.city = "Portland"
>     ship.ups.valid_address? => true
> 
> I hope you enjoy this library,
> 
> -Lucas Carlson

Great!  Does this include tracking?