title: Google-api-ruby-client Translate API Examples
body: <p>I was very happy to see the google code: <strong><a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-api-ruby-client" rel="noreferrer">google-api-ruby-client</a></strong> project, because it meant to me that Ruby people can polish code with the <strong>Google API</strong>-s.</p>
  
  <p>For now though I'm stumped because the only example given uses Buzz and from my experiments, the <strong>Google Translate</strong> (v2) api must behave quite differently to Buzz in the <strong><a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-api-ruby-client" rel="noreferrer">google-api-ruby-client</a></strong>.</p>
  
  <p>I was intrigued by the 'Explorer' demo example -- But it isn't much of an explorer as far as I can see.  All it does is call up a Buzz service and then pokes about in things it ALREADY knows about Buzz the services.  To me, an explorer ought to let you 'discover' the services and the methods/functions exposed without <em>necessarily</em> knowing them already.</p>
  
  <p>I'd love to hear of Ruby command line and desktop applications using this: <strong><a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-api-ruby-client" rel="noreferrer">google-api-ruby-client</a></strong> for services <strong><em>other</em></strong> than Buzz and in particular the Translate api (I'm <em>less</em> interested in the existing Ruby gems using the translate service at this point).</p>
  
  <p>thanks ... <em>will</em></p>