How to start with garb-gem in Rails? - ruby-on-rails

I am a ruby on rails newbie and like to get some data from the google analytics api with the garb gem.
But I struggle at the very beginning. Does anyone have a little sample app to retrieve some data that I can use as a starting point?
KR, Fabian


you can refer following links for garb
http://geekospace.com/working-with-garb-a-rails-gem-for-google-analytics/
http://viget.com/extend/introducing-garb-access-the-google-analytics-data-export-api-with-ruby
http://www.tweetegy.com/2010/06/using-google-analytics-api-in-a-ruby-on-rails-project/

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