title: Using information from User Profiles Outside of SharePoint
body: <p>I'm creating website that creates a page for each person in our department with their contact information. The page can then be linked to from a qr code on a business card.</p>
  
  <p>What is the best way to get the information out of their SharePoint profiles? </p>
  
  <p>edit: I'm not very familiar with creating stuff in Visual Studio. I'm using Ruby on Rails for the website and I've read SharePoint has REST services which would work great but I can't seem to figure out how to access the User Profile information.</p>