README

Welcome to Shipping

Shipping is a module that connects APIs for various shippers like UPS and FedEx.

Download

• gem install shipping
• rubyforge.org/projects/shipping
• svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/shipping

Usage

There is going to be some data that will persist for all connections. For example, you will not want to repeat the fedex account number every time in your implementation code. To set default values, setup a file called .shipping.yml in the home directory of the user who will be using this library. An example file would be:

    fedex_url: https://gatewaybeta.fedex.com/GatewayDC
    fedex_account: 1234556
    fedex_meter: 387878

    ups_account: 7B4F74E3075AEEFF
    ups_user: username
    ups_password: password

You can set as many default values as you would like in this file.

    require 'shipping'

    ups = Shipping::UPS.new :zip => 97202, :sender_zip => 10001, :weight => 2
    ups.price => 8.77
    ups.valid_address? => false

    ups.city = "Portland"
    ups.valid_address? => true

Alternately, you can instantiate the base class and then see both UPS and FedEx information.

    ship = Shipping::Base.new :zip => 97202, :state => "OR", :sender_zip => 10001, :weight => 2
    ship.ups.price => 8.77
    ship.fedex.price => 5.17

    ship.city = "Portland"
    ship.ups.valid_address? => true

Authors

• Lucas Carlson (lucas@rufy.com)

This library is released under the terms of the GNU LGPL.