Getting an error from within the Asin gem...

[robacarp]

Hey, many thanks for this gem. I've been able to use it to query the Amazon API by manually loading it into IRB. When I tried to load it into my rails application I ran into some problems though.

Not sure if I'm doing it wrong or not. Here is what I have:

config/initializers/asin.rb:
require 'asin'
include ASIN
configure :secret => '', :key => ''

and when I start the rails app (rails s or rails c) I get a stackdump starting with:
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/asin-0.0.8/lib/asin.rb:91:in `merge!': can't convert Class into Hash (TypeError)

I'm done working for the night, but tomorrow I'll probably crack open the gem and see what I can find.

[phoet]

sounds like you are passing a class into the configure method instead of a hash.

i use asin in a helper-class that is located in my lib folder:

class Helper
  extend ASIN
  def self.amazon_book(asin)
    configure(:secret => ENV['ASIN_SECRET'], :key => ENV['ASIN_KEY'], :host => 'webservices.amazon.de', :logger => logger)
  end
end

[robacarp]

Yes, thanks for the reply. I also have it in a helper class, I think the problem I was having was that I was doing "include ASIN" instead of "extend ASIN".

my helper class:
module Amazonian
extend ASIN
end

and my initializer:
require 'amazonian'
Amazonian.configure(:secret => '<>', :key => '<>')

I had almost the same setup yesterday when it was throwing that error so I was distilling it down to the bare minimum for some testing. Swapping out that include for extend seems to have done it.

Thanks!