From: 12 34 <rubyforum@...>
Date: 2010-06-02T15:30:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing geonames

Michael Fellinger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:57 PM, 12 34 <rubyforum@web.knobby.ws> wrote:
>> 41.505928,-81.594582
> 
> iota ~ % irb
>>> require 'geonames'
> => true
>>> places = Geonames::WebService.find_nearby_place_name(41.505928, -81.594582)
> => [#<Geonames::Toponym:0x000000027dd158 @name="Little Italy",
> @alternate_names=nil, @latitude=41.5089406, @longitude=-81.5981817,
> @geoname_id="5161005", @country_code="US", @country_name="United
> States", @feature_class="P", @feature_code="PPLX",
> @feature_class_name=nil, @feature_code_name=nil, @population=nil,
> @elevation=nil, @distance=0.4495>]
>>> places.first.country_name
> => "United States"

Thanks. I had tried places.country_name among others. Why the "first"?

places_nearby[0].country_code works too.

The docs didn't suggest how to parse the result.

Thank you for the answers, but I'm not sure why it's working. But I can 
proceed.

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