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Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects

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Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
Preface

Summary


What we've learned in this chapter is to create a mashup with Ruby on Rails on a number of mapping and geocoding providers including Yahoo, Google, geocoder.us, geocoder.ca, and hostip.info. We learned to create a mashup that gives us a map of the closest kiosks to a particular location, given an existing database of kiosks that have location addresses. This is just an introduction to the synergistic value that mashups bring to the table, creating value that was not available in individual APIs. When they are all put together, you have a useful feature for your website.