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title: "Ruby Gem: IMDB"
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kind: article
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slug: ruby-gem-imdb
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created_at: 2009-06-03
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tags:
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- General
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- Ruby
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- imdb
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- gem
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- api
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---
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I just released version 0.1.0 of my IMDB gem which allows your app to search IMDB for IMDB movie ID's and access most data that's publicly available.
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## Installation
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sudo gem install imdb
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This will also install the dependencies Hpricot and HTTParty.
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## Usage
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In your project, include the gem (and possibly rubygems as well).
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:::ruby
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require 'rubygems'
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require 'imdb'
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search = Imdb::Search.new('Star Trek')
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=> #<Imdb::Search:0x18289e8 @query="Star Trek">
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puts search.movies[0..3].collect{ |m| [m.id, m.title].join(" - ") }.join("\n")
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=> 0060028 - "Star Trek" (1966) (TV series)
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0796366 - Star Trek (2009)
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0092455 - "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) (TV series)
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0112178 - "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) (TV series)
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st = Imdb::Movie.new("0796366")
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=> #<Imdb::Movie:0x16ff904 @url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/", @id="0796366", @title=nil>
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st.title
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=> "Star Trek"
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st.year
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=> 2009
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st.rating
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=> 8.4
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st.cast_members[0..2].join(", ")
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=> "Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy"
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As you can see, both `Imdb::Search` and `Imdb::Movie` are lazy loading, only doing a HTTP request when you actually request data. Also, the remote HTTP data is cached trhough-out the life span of your Imdb::Movie object.
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## Documentation
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Generated RDoc documentation can be found at [http://ariejan.github.com/imdb/][1].
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[1]: http://ariejan.github.com/imdb/
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## Issues, feature requests, patches, the works
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Please use <a href="https://github.com/ariejan/imdb">https://github.com/ariejan/imdb</a> to supply patches (preferably through a pull-request) and to report issues.
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