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Use this to access the Google Places API in your Ruby application
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 Project Readme

Google Places

Ruby wrapper for the Google Places API.

Installation

Inside your Gemfile:
gem 'places'

Get Google Places API credentials

Go here and activate it:
https://code.google.com/apis/console

Usage

Instantiate a client

>> @client = Places::Client.new(:api_key => 'your_api_key')

Examples

Search for a place

>> @search = @client.search(:lat => 32.8481659, :lng => -97.1952847, :types => "food", :name => "roots")
>> @search.results.first.name
=> 'Roots Coffeehouse'

Get details for a place

>> @detail = @client.details(:reference => "CnRpAAAAjVikwLlaJ2WN8i0cPwu3A0zcE9iCSMDihmbn_bkXYkM-7xtRcn-ZAmrQtWAAzxQPYxZmyaCeNIMQ_t_eWNDp1CmviA-iY-M63UjpUywQeR5B1dmZ2_Ne756bAjp2uYXTxobVtLKeWkVmGz2dFUMacRIQ6MbrsRQfx1fIbMf4s-s6RhoU-5Uxc26iNf80jxRypRlMJl_k6Gg")
>> @detail.result.name
>> 'Roots Coffeehouse'

Check-in to a place

>> @checkin = @client.checkin(:reference => "CnRpAAAAjVikwLlaJ2WN8i0cPwu3A0zcE9iCSMDihmbn_bkXYkM-7xtRcn-ZAmrQtWAAzxQPYxZmyaCeNIMQ_t_eWNDp1CmviA-iY-M63UjpUywQeR5B1dmZ2_Ne756bAjp2uYXTxobVtLKeWkVmGz2dFUMacRIQ6MbrsRQfx1fIbMf4s-s6RhoU-5Uxc26iNf80jxRypRlMJl_k6Gg")

Add a new place

>> @add = @client.add(:lat => -33.8669710, :lng => 151.1958750, :accuracy => 50, :name => "Google Shoes!", :types => "shoe_store")

Delete a place

>> @delete = @client.delete(:reference => "CkQxAAAAgoh_Zw4jcE_9-B1b56AgriFZKVdpgc5yYXtwRAPjs-aWIxgUi6Wl-Qe-DdDP5m7PUCzy9iOqWWmdx4sU53035RIQqqNIGGPevJaTM9l1Xh9hpRoUWxhdGBS0XppFiJhZMXX_jiuDsdY")

Copyright

Contact me if you have any suggestions and feel free to fork it!

Copyright (c) 2009 Johnny Khai Nguyen, released under the MIT license