Question

I was very happy to see the google code: google-api-ruby-client project, because it meant to me that Ruby people can polish code with the Google API-s.

For now though I’m stumped because the only example given uses Buzz and from my experiments, the Google Translate (v2) api must behave quite differently to Buzz in the google-api-ruby-client.

I was intrigued by the ‘Explorer’ demo example — But it isn’t much of an explorer as far as I can see. All it does is call up a Buzz service and then pokes about in things it ALREADY knows about Buzz the services. To me, an explorer ought to let you ‘discover’ the services and the methods/functions exposed without necessarily knowing them already.

I’d love to hear of Ruby command line and desktop applications using this: google-api-ruby-client for services other than Buzz and in particular the Translate api (I’m less interested in the existing Ruby gems using the translate service at this point).

thanks … will

Answer 1

Code for making calls to the translate API looks like this:

require 'google/api_client'
client = Google::APIClient.new(:key => YOUR_DEVELOPER_KEY)
translate = client.discovered_api('translate', 'v2')
result = client.execute(
  :api_method => translate.translations.list,
  :parameters => {
    'format' => 'text',
    'source' => 'en',
    'target' => 'es',
    'q' => 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.'
  }
)