title: rails 3 - how to make server side web queries and process results
body: <p>I am building a plain vanilla Rails 3 app, where I would like to make a google query on <em>server</em> side, using some data user provided through a form, access say top 1-2 results from the results of that query and extract some data from them (all still on server side) and then serve the data back to the user on client side.</p>
  
  <p>Is that possible? if yes could you give me at least a few broad ideas of solution so i know which direction to investigate?</p>
  
  <p>many thanks</p>