# Yahoo!'s Ruby Developer Center **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 6, 2007, 6:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yahoo-s-ruby-developer-center/87819 "2007-03-06T06:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zakifataya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/c89c15/32.png) [@zakifataya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zakifataya)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 6:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yahoo-s-ruby-developer-center/87819/1 "2007-03-06T06:15:44Z")
> **[Yahoo Developer Network](https://developer.yahoo.com/)** > > Measure, monetize, advertise and improve your apps with Yahoo tools. Join the 200,000 developers using Yahoo tools to build their app businesses. "Welcome to the Ruby Developer Center Ruby is a very popular open-source language which lends itself especially well to object-oriented programming for the Web. If you’ve ever thought about combining Ruby with Yahoo!'s open APIs and Web services, read on." I just came across this and thought it might be of interest. Brian ---
**Author:** ![zakifataya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/c89c15/32.png) [@zakifataya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zakifataya)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yahoo-s-ruby-developer-center/87819/2 "2007-03-06T14:06:52Z")
On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:50 AM, Richard C. wrote: > REST interface is fairly reusable and has interesting net/http > examples. Yeah, I wish they would have shown a little open-uri usage though. I really prefer that interface to net/http whenever you can get away with it. James Edward G. II ---
**Author:** ![zakifataya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/c89c15/32.png) [@zakifataya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zakifataya)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yahoo-s-ruby-developer-center/87819/3 "2007-03-06T11:51:25Z")
On 3/6/07, Brian A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > [http://developer.yahoo.com/ruby/](http://developer.yahoo.com/ruby/) > > "Welcome to the Ruby Developer Center > I just came across this and thought it might be of interest. Brian it’s not bad. Their HOWTO section is the most useful to Ruby generalists, even the bit about using the YAHOO REST interface is fairly reusable and has interesting net/http examples. Ditto with simple examples for parsing XML with REXML & XmlSimple and for parsing JSON. Nice heads up. Richard. ---
**Author:** ![zakifataya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/c89c15/32.png) [@zakifataya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zakifataya)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yahoo-s-ruby-developer-center/87819/4 "2007-03-06T14:33:00Z")
On 3/6/07, James Edward G. II [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:50 AM, Richard C. wrote: > > > Brian it’s not bad. Their HOWTO section is the most useful > > to Ruby generalists, even the bit about using the YAHOO > > REST interface is fairly reusable and has interesting net/http > > examples. > > Yeah, I wish they would have shown a little open-uri usage though. I > really prefer that interface to net/http whenever you can get away > with it. I have had fun with the various Ruby HTTP & web automation libraries, and I agree that lacking lots of examples is a problem. If anyone could link comprehensive examples to these libraries I would be particularly grateful. Thanks again to Brian for increasing the number of examples known to me by a whole 20%. > James Edward G. II regards, Richard.