Ruby on Rails 3 and Google Book Search

Question

I'm trying to get started using the Google Data API for Google Book Search in my Ruby on Rails 3 application, and I don't even understand how to get started. What gems do I need? What do I need to do in order to do something simple like searching for books with a title of Foobar?

Answer 1

if you want to use the api, i think you will have to use jruby and their java api. no ruby api exists for the book search, according to this: http://code.google.com/apis/books/docs/gdata/code.html

for connecting with google, try using the gdata gem. http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/gdata_on_rails.html#SetupRails