Now I know that I’m doing something wrong but I just can’t figure out what it is.

Nevermind. I’m going to figure out a different way of using this for the minuite and when I get more time I’ll look at finding out how to install the gem properly.

Thanks for all the help

James

The installation instructions I followed were
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com # if you haven’t done this in the past for other gems hosted at github
sudo gem install ctagg-ebay_shopping

simply run the usual: script/plugin install http://ebay-shopping.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ebay_shopping

Then from the root of your rails app run ruby vendor/plugins/ebay_shopping/install.rb.

I’ll check that I haven’t got the plugin installed somehow and re-install everything.

Thanks for your help.
I’ll let you know how I get on.
James

Just pass :site_id => [desired site_id] along with the other params to override the default.

I’m struggling to understand the problem re the config file — the error implies that the config_params method doesn’t take any arguments (which was how it was configured in the plugin), but in the gem you specify the location of the config file (since it’s not necessarily being called from a rails app), as you can see from the code here

I just found your other Blog on the original plugin and afeter a good read of that I found the instructions for the environment.rb settings.

It’s now totally obvious to me that I have the location problems because I don’t have this set up.

I do not actually want to use the yml in my final app as I want to be able to change the location on the fly but it would be good to find out what is causing the argument errors.
If there is anyhting you think I should be doing to get this error sorted or to track it down then let me know.

I’ll keep pligging away at it and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for the info on the 3 items thing. I just found that on your other blog too.

James

I have a model class

class EbayTest
def self.search_ebay(item_to_search_for)
@request = EbayShopping::Request.new(:FindItems, {:query_keywords => item_to_search_for})
end
end

I’m calling it from my controller in response to an AJAX request

def search_result
# logger.debug("### Query - #{params[:search_query]}")
@result = EbayTest.search_ebay(params[:search_query])
@ebay_response = @result.response
respond_to do |format|
format.js
end
end
</code
The partial looks like this


This only ever gets 3 results
Should be 50 as this is the maximum for the shopping api and the total count is around 200 for the search I'm doing.

Thanks again for such a quick response.