links for 2010-04-12

How to use ruby to create and access google docs data. Which uses Atom. "This article will explain how to use Ruby to interact with Google Data API services. We will not focus on Rails, instead we are more interested in explaining the underlying HTTP commands and structure of our feeds. All of the examples presented here can be followed from the command line by using irb, Ruby's interactive shell. As you may recall from the cURL article, the Google Data APIs use the Atom Publishing Protocol to represent, create and update web resources. The beauty of this protocol is that standard HTTP verbs are used to formulate requests which are answered with standard HTTP status codes."