Mendeley is a project mainly written in Ruby, it's free.
A simple ruby wrapper for the mendeley api
This is a simple ruby wrapper for the mendeley api You can find details about the mendeley API here: (http://apidocs.mendeley.com/home/public-resources)
gem install mendeleyBefore you can use the gem you will need to get a consumer key from the mendeley website
The first step is to define your consumer key:
Mendeley.consumer_key = "
Now you can make requests to the mendeley api.
To do a search simply the use document search class method Mendeley::API::Documents.search(term)
To get detailed information on a document: Mendeley::API.Documents.document_details(< doc_id>)