# Amazon and Rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 14, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amazon-and-rails/68636 "2006-09-14T02:08:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amazon-and-rails/68636/1 "2006-09-14T02:08:51Z")
Hello all, Does anyone have experience using the Amazon web API with Rails? Have you had any luck with it? * * * Stay in the know. Pulse on the new [Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com). Check it out. ---
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amazon-and-rails/68636/2 "2006-09-14T02:26:52Z")
I’ve had pretty good success with ruby-amazon. [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-amazon/](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-amazon/) ---
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amazon-and-rails/68636/3 "2006-09-14T03:50:58Z")
Amazon offers quite a few Web services, from the store stuff to S3 and EC2. They offer a lot of Ruby examples with their APIs, which is nice. We use S3 with a Rails app with great success. From: Will G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Reply-To: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:04:15 -0700 (PDT) To: Rails L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Subject: [Rails] Amazon and Rails Hello all, Does anyone have experience using the Amazon web API with Rails? Have you had any luck with it? Stay in the know. Pulse on the new [Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com). Check it out. [http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42974/\*http://www.yahoo.com/preview](http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42974/*http://www.yahoo.com/preview) ---
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amazon-and-rails/68636/4 "2006-09-14T17:58:50Z")
I’m using it too, but trying to connect to it so that Ajax is possible. Anyone have any luck? HH wrote: > Amazon offers quite a few Web services, from the store stuff to S3 and > EC2. > They offer a lot of Ruby examples with their APIs, which is nice. > > We use S3 with a Rails app with great success. > > From: Will G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > Reply-To: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:04:15 -0700 (PDT) > To: Rails L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > Subject: [Rails] Amazon and Rails > > Hello all, > Does anyone have experience using the Amazon web API with Rails? Have > you > had any luck with it? > > Stay in the know. Pulse on the new [Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com). Check it out. > [http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42974/\*http://www.yahoo.com/preview](http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42974/*http://www.yahoo.com/preview) ---
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amazon-and-rails/68636/5 "2006-09-14T18:15:21Z")
On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Will G. wrote: > Does anyone have experience using the Amazon web API with Rails? > Have you had any luck with it? I’m using the ECommerce Services in a current project, using ruby- amazon. My main use has been to fill a local model with data from amazon, and I set that up as a plugin (dependent on ruby-amazon): > **[loads\_from\_amazon (Ruby on Rails plugin)](https://jystewart.net/2006/07/20/loads_from_amazon-ruby-on-rails-plugin/)** > > UPDATE (10/2008): This plugin is no longer maintained. I’d recommend looking at one of the newer alternatives such as acts\_as\_amazon\_product if you need this functionality. I’ve been pr… on-rails-plugin/ [http://projects.jystewart.net/svn/rails/loads\_from\_amazon/trunk/](http://projects.jystewart.net/svn/rails/loads_from_amazon/trunk/) I’ve been working on integrating with the Pro Merchant API but ran into a few problems that i haven’t had time to work through yet. James. – James S. : Freelance Web D. Work : [http://jystewart.net](http://jystewart.net) Play : [http://james.anthropiccollective.org](http://james.anthropiccollective.org)