How do I interact with the Amazon Product Advertising API in my Rails app?

I'm building a Rails web app and was wondering what is the best way to get a list of products that Amazon wou开发者_运维问答ld return based on a search term?

For example, if I sent amazon the term "iphone", I'd get a list of iphones back from Amazon.

Does anyone know if there's a gem or library for Rails out there that would fit this need?

I've always used the amazon-ecs gem. Despite the name, it looks like it's still under active development (last updated August 27th, 2009).

http://github.com/jugend/amazon-ecs

Here is a blog post that might help you on your way:

http://www.pluitsolutions.com/projects/amazon-ecs

So the Ruby/AWS library is the way to go. There is a pretty good tutorial here

Pablo, ruby-aaws worked nearly out of the box for me. I just had to setup a .amazonrc file with the configuration options like my amazon affiliate id and AWS public and secret keys.

http://github.com/papercavalier/sucker

The Ruby/AWS library (gem: ruby-aaws) seems to do it. Not much in the way of examples, but with some code searches I'm sure you can turn up something.

Another pottential library to do this is amazon-product-advertising-api, but I cannot say anything else about it as I haven't tried it.

I second Ruby/AWS. It has support for ListSearch and ListLookup. Amazon-ecs has comparatively less support for the API.