Plugins - loads_from_amazon
Add to favoritesloadsfromamazon is an ActiveRecord Mixin that works with the Ruby/Amazon library to let you populate an ActiveRecord object with the details of a product listed on amazon. In the README I use the following example:
class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_amazon
maps_to_amazon_attribute :authorlist => 'authors', :combine => ';'
maps_to_amazon_attribute :title => 'product_name'
maps_to_amazon_attribute :isbn => 'asin'
maps_to_amazon_attribute :publisher => 'manufacturer'
maps_to_amazon_attribute :pubdate => 'release_date'
end
@book = Book.load_from_amazon(isbn) # Loads but does not save
@otherbook = Book.load_from_amazon!(other_isbn) # Loads data and saves to database
http://jystewart.net/process/archives/2006/07/loads_from_amazon-ruby-on-rails-plugin/
http://projects.jystewart.net/svn/rails/loads_from_amazon/
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Model
This one stopped being maintained quite a while ago. I meant to rewrite it to sit on a more up to date Amazon ECS library, but never got round to it.
These days it'd be better to look at something like actsas_amazonproduct -- http://github.com/netphase/aaap/tree/master