# What api's can ROR use?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 21, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-apis-can-ror-use/132609 "2008-03-21T20:31:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/megax)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-apis-can-ror-use/132609/1 "2008-03-21T20:31:56Z")

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I know ROR can use amazon, google maps and facebook but I was wondering  
what other api’s it can use. can anyone help?

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**Author:** ![megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/megax)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-apis-can-ror-use/132609/2 "2008-03-21T21:59:44Z")

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On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Alan Red wrote:

> ## I know ROR can use amazon, google maps and facebook but I was wondering what other api’s it can use. can anyone help?

Many public APIs are wrapped by either a plugin or a gem. The two  
places I normally look are [http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins) to  
see what plugins are available and [http://rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) to see what  
gems are available.

Shameless plug: Recently I put together a gem browser at  
[http://gemmy.calicowebdev.com](http://gemmy.calicowebdev.com)  
which uses ferret to full-text search gems based on their names,  
summaries and descriptions.