As I said in a previous post about integrating WordPress with my Rails site, I’m a huge fan of things integrating easily. I wanted some pictures on my site and I have some on Flickr, so what would be easier than using the Flickr API to show photos on my site? So how to do this in Rails? A quick Google search turned up this!

Whoa, look at that!

Install a gem, make sure the new files are in my railties lib directory (because my application is frozen), get a Flickr API key, write four or five lines of code, and I had this! God I love ease of use and reusability.