wsdl the google API (search google with ruby) (See related posts)

require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
$KCODE = "UTF8"
key = 'LVJnAm5QFHblahblahblah your key here'

#create driver
wsdl = "http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl"
driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
query = "your query string here"
start = 0
max = 10
  
# see http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/browser/trunk/sample/wsdl/googleSearch/wsdlDriver.rb
@results = driver.doGoogleSearch( key, query, start, max, true, "", true, 'lang_en', '','')
snippets = @results.resultElements.collect { |r| r.snippet } # you can get all kinds'a' info here
self.update_attribute(:html, snippets.join("\n")) # or whatever