Ruby & Javascript

rubyonrails-talk
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Hey guys!

Does anyone knows how to a ruby program communicate with the Google API, which one is written in Javascript ? I’ve heard something about a wrapper to do the communication, but i didn’t find anything yet.

I know a plugin for rails can do that (geokit), but i don’t know how. There is a method (geocode) that use the javascript function to return the XML data about a address.

So, please help me!

Thanks in advance!, Ernesto

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Google API? You mean Google Maps API right? I'm not sure about ruby but for rails there is a very good plugin http://github.com/andre/geokit-rails/tree/master that has good documentation on the page... I used this for a store locator and it's a very good tool...

I guess you could look at the plugin code and transfer that to a plain ruby script if you wanted too...

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yeah, sorry, I mean google maps API.

I’ll take a look at the code. It’s something like that, i want to know how to write my own code over the Gmaps API.