From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@...>
Date: 2002-04-13T00:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/Google

Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As part of my continuing efforts to master Ruby, I've released version
> 0.1.0 of Ruby/Google.
> 
> This library offers a higher-level abstraction of Google's new
> SOAP-driven Web API. The aim of the library is to make the details of
> the raw data structures returned by the Web API irrelevant, in the
> process making the API more accessible for everyday use.
> 
> The code is of alpha quality, but seems to do as it's told, in spite
> of my newness to the language. :-)
> 
> Demonstration programs are included in the archive.
> 
> I encourage people to try it out and let me know what they think.

Neat, I was hoping someone would do this for until we have WSDL support :-)  
It seems to work pretty well (except for alternately a search succeeding and 
getting a weird SOAP error..., but I think that's SOAP4R's fault and will 
try to figure out more later).

I did have a few changes, of course ;)  I wanted to get rid of some of the 
complexity and inconvenience of using Hash objects, since I feel Struct 
objects are a little more suitable and nicer to use.  That and I wanted a 
slightly more useful definition of KEY by default; here's what I have.  I've 
put up my changes up at http://green.bikeshed.org/~green/ruby-google.patch 
for those things I mentioned.  Let me know what you think!

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