geospatial team at nomad labs
There is a little post on getting Google Earth and Rails apps talking to each other at: GE-Rails. There is even a hint on using merb instead or Rails
Alessandro Pasotti has authored a utility to output mapserver layers as KML for display on Google Earth. This is written in PHP mapscript so will require mapscript to be installed with your standard Mapserver installation. Check it out here.
Although its a useful tool, it would be nice to have kml support in mapserver (C++) out [...]
GeoLabs is the Spatial team at Nomad Labs. We love all things spatial and particularly like the idea of spatial analysis on the geoweb. We also tend to use a lot of open source GIS in our work. Yey! to the open source. Other than that we love dynamic languages, open RESTful API's and beautiful code and thoughtfully designed software. All things that we try to adhere to in our work.