From: Sven Schott <sven.schott@...>
Date: 2010-06-02T15:11:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing geonames

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Have you tried just calling the name of the instance var? Sometimes nice
developer set up easy setters and getters in their implementations.

e.g.

places_nearby[0].country_code

Just a thought. What are you trying that's failing? Have you looked through
the docs at

http://www.tbcn.ca/ruby_geonames

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:57 PM, 12 34 <rubyforum@web.knobby.ws> wrote:

> A Ruby newbie having trouble getting results back from geonames
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> require "rubygems"
> require 'geonames'
>
> places_nearby = Geonames::WebService.find_nearby_place_name
> 41.505928,-81.594582
> p places_nearby # --> [#<Geonames::Toponym:0x1021042f0
> @country_code="US", @feature_code_name=nil, @elevation=nil,
> @distance=0.4495, @alternate_names=nil, @feature_code="PPLX",
> @population=nil, @geoname_id="5161005", @longitude=-81.5981817,
> @feature_class_name=nil, @country_name="United States", @name="Little
> Italy", @latitude=41.5089406, @feature_class="P">]
>
> How do I get any of the values, e.g., country_name? places_nearby is a
> local variable.
>
> Thank you in advance for help. I've tried several things, but can't
> figure it out.
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