From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2010-06-05T15:23:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing geonames

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:06 AM, 12 34 <rubyforum@web.knobby.ws> wrote:
> Michael Fellinger wrote:
>>> If you want a beta tester I'm in.
>>
>> It's not very polished yet, but since I said I'd push today:
>> http://github.com/manveru/geonames
>
> OK, I'm a relative newbie. How do I use it? Just include the geonames.rb
> file? Please give a sample of how to call it.

There is an example for every method in the comments, i didn't finish
the docs for the last few ones, will try to do that today and write
some little intro for the readme.

> Should it be installed as a gem? If so how? I guess a bigger question is
> how does ruby sort out three gems named geonames? The last one
> installed? elecnix being the third.

It's possible, but not really nice to name the gem geonames. I'll find
some crazy name and rename it.

> Just looked at my gems and could drag in your version. I assume Ruby
> just looks in the folder and doesn't keep any registration file?
>
> Thanks for pushing this out. And as far as I'm concerned I'll be fairly
> tied up through the weekend, so take your time.

-- 
Michael Fellinger
CTO, The Rubyists, LLC