http://github.com/ctagg/flickr/tree/master
I'm trying the example in the home page of the flickr gem.
require 'flickr'
flickr = Flickr.new('MY_KEY')
user = flickr.users('[email protected]')
user.name
user.location
while I'm able to get the user object, I can't get any of the other attributes like name, location etc. How to get those details?
I worked through the problem I was experiencing above in my comment but I am not having difficulty getting people's attributes. The following code works as expected in a ruby script/console session:
require 'flickr'
f = Flickr.new('<<MY_KEY>>')
u = f.users('[email protected]')
puts u.name
puts u.location
Substituting my username ('topherfangio') instead of Scott's, the name attribute works, but apparently my location is nil.
Could you describe a little bit more about exactly what you are getting? Any errors or is it just blank? Have you tried multiple users?
Edit 1: Just got your API key and it doesn't work for me either, try the following and see if that makes any difference. Also, are you using a non-commercial key or a commercial key?
f = Flickr.new(:api_key => 'MY_KEY', :shared_secret => 'MY_SECRET')
My guess is that it's not fully authenticating or something like that.
Edit 2: I'm a freaking liar...I was typing f = Flickr.new(...); f.name which was breaking. Your API key is working correctly for me. Perhaps it's your network or something?
To not entirely answer your question, I've been using the Fleakr gem and found it to be extremely straightforward. Documentation is good and you do everything in the code once it is installed.
No tricks, just sudo gem install fleakr
It depends on the builder gem, so also do sudo gem install builder.
Once I switched to Fleakr my project finished quickly!