[Developers] MQL for Ruby?

[David Dennis]

THANKS!
But please also warn people in the future to run "gem install echoe" first.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Shawn Simister <narphorium at gmail.com>wrote:

>  The HTTParty gem is a great way to get started with MQL in Ruby. Here's
> some sample code to get you started.
>
> require 'httparty'
>
> class Freebase
>   include HTTParty
>   format :json
>   base_uri 'http://www.freebase.com/api'
>
>   def self.read(q)
>     return get('/service/mqlread?', :query => {:query => '{"query":' + q +
> '}'})['result']
>   end
> end
>
> query = '{"id":"/en/peru","capital":null,"type":"/location/country"}'
> puts Freebase.read(query)['capital']
>
> This code will query Freebase to find the capital of Peru and will write
> the result to the console.
>
> Shawn
>
> David Dennis wrote:
>
> From looking around it seems like there's no gem set up for this yet.
>
>  For some reason even running a basic "open()" from "open-uri" doesn't
> allow me to retrieve any text when I include a Freebase query url as a
> parameter.  I can usually retrieve HTML this way (e.g.,
> http://www.google.com still works).  Why would does it not work for the
> Freebase query URLs?
>  I just want to get some text on screen to start with.  Have any other
> rails people had luck?
>
>  Thanks,
> David
>
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