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HTTParty goes foreign

Posted by Robby Russell Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:05:00 GMT

81 comments Latest by lampre jersey Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:52:14 GMT

Just a quick post to get share something I was tinkering with this evening.

I came across this post by Gerald Bauer, which shows you how to use the Google Translation API with Ruby via Net::HTTP. I thought I’d play with the service with HTTParty.

class GoogleApi
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'ajax.googleapis.com'

  def self.translate(string="", to="", from="en")
    get("/ajax/services/language/translate", :query => {:langpair => "#{from}|#{to}", :q => string, :v => 1.0})
  end
end

A few examples from playing with it.

>> GoogleApi.translate('bonjour', 'en', 'fr')
=> "{\"responseData\": {\"translatedText\":\"hello\"}, \"responseDetails\": null, \"responseStatus\": 200}"

>> GoogleApi.translate('Red wine', 'fr')
=> "{\"responseData\": {\"translatedText\":\"Vin rouge\",\"detectedSourceLanguage\":\"en\"}, \"responseDetails\": null, \"responseStatus\": 200}"

>> GoogleApi.translate('Where is the bathroom?', 'es')
=> "{\"responseData\": {\"translatedText\":\"\302\277D\303\263nde est\303\241 el ba\303\261o?\",\"detectedSourceLanguage\":\"en\"}, \"responseDetails\": null, \"responseStatus\": 200}"

>> GoogleApi.translate('Good morning', 'it')
=> "{\"responseData\": {\"translatedText\":\"Buon giorno\",\"detectedSourceLanguage\":\"en\"}, \"responseDetails\": null, \"responseStatus\": 200}"

What a party!

>> GoogleApi.translate('party', 'it')
=> "{\"responseData\": {\"translatedText\":\"festa\",\"detectedSourceLanguage\":\"en\"}, \"responseDetails\": null, \"responseStatus\": 200}"
>> GoogleApi.translate('party', 'es')
=> "{\"responseData\": {\"translatedText\":\"fiesta\",\"detectedSourceLanguage\":\"en\"}, \"responseDetails\": null, \"responseStatus\": 200}"

Look how easy that was. :-)

For a previous post on using this gem, read The HTTParty has just begun.

The Rails Hosting Survey 2009 Survey results are in!

Posted by Robby Russell Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:27:00 GMT

66 comments Latest by lampre jersey Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:55:31 GMT

We recently announced a survey that touched on topics related to the deployment and hosting of Ruby on Rails applications. We promised to share the results with the community and have made this information available at http://rails-hosting.com. You can download the results in CSV, PDF, and view them in HTML here.

Thanks again to everyone who helped us execute this survey!