Archive for the ‘REST’ Tag

Introducing GMoney – A RubyGem for Interacting with the Google Finance API

February 1, 2010 – 1:00 am

Update March 03, 2010:Due to changes in the Google Finance API only GMoney gem versions >= 0.4.3 are working. If you run gem update gmoney to get the latest version or install the gem from scratch you will be fine. Let's pretend the year is 2007 and I have ...

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Putting Google Finance to REST with Ruby

July 23, 2008 – 2:43 am

RubyNation is just a week and a half away and in order to prepare myself I thought I'd brush up on some Ruby and Rails in the days preceding the conference. I don't use Ruby on a regular basis, but I'm a huge fan of dynamic languages so I'm ...

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Putting Google Finance to REST with Groovy

July 16, 2008 – 11:07 pm

For a while now I've been interested in learning more about building and consuming REST based web services. Fortunately, many tech giants including Google and Yahoo expose much of their data and functionality through REST based APIs. These powerful APIs, combined with Groovy's concise, readable syntax make it ...

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