A ruby interface to the unit dictionary at oceaninformatics.ucsd.edu/services/unitregistry Uses a prefix character on the parameter value to indicate whether to search for exact =‘ or approximate ’~‘ matches
* UnitDictionary.find(:all)
* UnitDictionary.find(42)
* UnitDictionary.find(:all, {'name' => '=meter'})
* UnitDictionary.find(:all, {'name' => '~meter'})
* UnitDictionary.find(:all, [{'name'=>'~meter'},{'name'=>'~milli'}])
* JSON gem http://github.com/flori/json * Rest-Client gem http://github.com/archiloque/rest-client