R. Elliott Mason wrote:
I'm trying to develop a Facebook application in Rails that allows users to look up certain products on Amazon. I know Amazon has Amazon Web Services, and I thought this would give me a clue as to how to proceed, but it so far appears those services are highly specific. ? I'm totally lost here. How should I go about allowing users to use my application to search and retrieve records from Amazon.com? I saw other Facebook applications use Amazon for searching for books (although I have no idea what language was used; but that shouldn't matter), so there must be some way to pull this off.
You probably want to investigate one of the Ruby/Amazon libraries, such as Ruby/Amazon (www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-amazon.shtml) to get the data from Amazon. Serving it up to Facebook users should be very similar to serving to ordinary users.