I got a new key and it still is giving the same issue. Also, when I
ping - flickr api usage statistics show the ping, however, it doesn't
allow it to get data from it.
There's a problem with the flickr gem, it sends the default (expired)
API key instead of the one you assign it. There's an updated version
of flickr.rb mentioned in the comments on this page
but that seems to have problems of it's own, so I fixed those and my
updated code is here : Parked at Loopia , which seems to
work for me so far, although this gem is quite out of date now and
doesn't feature some of the newer aspects of the flickr API.