# Shipping information from fedex/ups

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shipping-information-from-fedex-ups/134132>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 8, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shipping-information-from-fedex-ups/134132 "2008-04-08T05:36:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![heimdull](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f4b2a3/32.png) [@heimdull](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/heimdull)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shipping-information-from-fedex-ups/134132/1 "2008-04-08T05:36:55Z")

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Hi,

I was looking to get a plugin or something to calculate shipping  
information from either fedex or ups. I have looked at active  
shipping, the shipping gem and MightyInteractive fedex plugin.

What are people doing in regards to shipping? The plugins/gems I have  
tested are all outdated…

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**Author:** ![heimdull](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f4b2a3/32.png) [@heimdull](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/heimdull)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shipping-information-from-fedex-ups/134132/2 "2008-04-08T17:47:11Z")

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That’s what I found, too, when I looked about six months ago. I ended  
up just mocking up some XML requests for UPS. You can search this  
forum and find my previous post which includes the code that I used.  
We then switched to using FedEx, and I did the same. The  
documentation for using XML with FedEx is terrible (they much prefer  
SOAP, but it was overkill for my application), so feel free to contact  
me outside of here to get some code. All I’m doing is making a rate  
request and parsing the response.

-Kyle

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**Author:** ![heimdull](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f4b2a3/32.png) [@heimdull](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/heimdull)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shipping-information-from-fedex-ups/134132/3 "2008-04-09T15:45:13Z")

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Check out my blog post on the subject that has some code for UPS:

[http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2007/10/ups-shipping-with-rails/](http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2007/10/ups-shipping-with-rails/)

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