Mechanical Turk Gem
Amazon’s mechanical turk gem 0.90 was released a couple of days ago (download here). We aren’t using Mechanical Turk yet, bu I have a myriad of things I’d like to try it on.
Mechanical Turk is brilliant, but it seems a unnecessarily complicated on the developer side. The documentation is thorough, but I couldn’t find a good step by step walk through for posting ‘hits’ and getting results. The sample “get your balance” code doesn’t really cut it for this mechanical n00b. This form is nice for one-offs. The docs don’t hold a light to the Google Maps api docs.
I’ll be sure to post a rudimentary how-to when we at last get around to utilizing The Turk.