A ruby client for the VinQuery vin decoding web service.
Bundler
gem vinquery
Rubygems
gem install vinquery
Vinquery will provide you with a unique url and access_code which is needed for every request. In addition you will need to send the report type you desire. More info is available at the VinQuery site.
require 'vinquery' vin = Vinquery.get('1FTWX31R19EB18840', { :url => 'VINQUERY_URL', :access_code => 'ACCESS_CODE', :report_type => 'REPORT_TYPE'}) vin.valid? # true vin.attributes[:make] # Ford