Did you get a chance to look at this issue?

Best,
Marc

I have code like this:

@book = Book.new(:isbn => ‘1856695688′)

Which only works with a handful of ISBN numbers. I tried a lot of different books, all of which are available on Amazon and can be found at their website using the exact same ISBN number I use in my code. But most of the time it can’t find it.

When it can’t find the book, this it what it returns when I access @book.amazon.author:

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.inner_html

(acts_as_amazon_product.rb:63:in `amazon’)

I’m new to Ruby, but shouldn’t it just return a nil object instead of throwing this error?
I’m probably doing something wrong though

By the way, if it’s easier feel free to email me instead of replying using comments

It should work, but perhaps you can tell me a little bit more about what you are seeing. It is working on one of our current projects. I look forward to your response.

Chris

Is the code still supposed to work? I’m running Rails 2.3 and the plugin only seems to work some of the time. (depending on the supplied ISBN number)

Thanks

_The Model:_

You can specify all desired Amazon Associates API response groups separated by comma, in your model:

acts_as_amazon_product :asin => ‘isbn’, :response_group => ‘ItemAttributes,OfferSummary’, :access_key => ‘your key’, :associate_tag => ‘your tag’

_View:_

Then get the required information from the response groups you have specified this way:

Nice work!