title: Using rails to consume web services/apis
body: <p>I'm new to the rails world and am trying to build a app to simply allow me to search things on  Amazon and such sites based on the users input.</p>
  
  <p>I've done a little reasearch and it seems the httparty gem is a good place to start? The documents ive found so far though are not the best. They don't really give me a lot of information (where to put the code etc).</p>
  
  <p>Are there any existing tutorials out there or code examples that I can either use or take a look at to give me a better idea of how this thing works?</p>