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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

What we will be doing


The following section describes the steps we will be taking to create the mashup. The basic steps are:

  1. 1. Create the Rails application

  2. 2. Create the basic Location object

  3. 3. Create a location search form

  4. 4. Create an online map to show the location found

  5. 5. Create the tabs for the information

  6. 6. Get general information from Wikipedia using FUTEF

  7. 7. Get places information from Wikipedia through GeoNames

  8. 8. Get hotel information from Kayak

  9. 9. Get weather information from WeatherBug

  10. 10. Display pictures of the location using Flickr

  11. 11. Show currency exchange rate from WebserviceX

  12. 12. Show remote location time compared with local time

Creating a Rails application

We begin this mashup as before by creating the usual Rails application.

$rails Chapter6

This will create a new Ruby on Rails application.

Creating the basic Location object

Our design revolves around a main Location object that provides all the information that we need for a user-specified location. This can be used for the remote...