postly: A Ruby repository from twoism

update

This wrapper uses the deprecated Posterous API. We are in the process of updating it to work with the current version.

postly

API wrapper for the posterous.com API.

###Install & Setup

postly is hosted on gemcutter.org. The source is available at http://github.com/twoism/postly.

$ gem install postly

Create the YAML file.

username: email
password: pass

And pass it into config.

Postly.config = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.posterous"

The postly console looks for .posterous in your home directory.

###Usage

# launch the postly console
$ postly

In IRB

> my_sites = Postly::Site.find
=> [#<Postly::Site:0x1015a8d48 @num_posts="21", @commentsenabled="true",@name="twoism", 
@private="false", @url="http://twoism.posterous.com", @hostname="twoism", @id="85691", @primary="true">]
  
> my_sites.first.posts.create(:title => "New API Post", :body => "Post body")
=> <Postly::Post:0x102541f70 @title="New API Post">
  
> post = Postly::Post.create(:site_id => my_sites.first.id, :title => "New API Post", :body => "Post body")
=> <Postly::Post:0x102541f70 @title="New API Post">

> post.comments.create(:comment => "New Comment", :email => "some@one.com")
=> <Postly::Comment:0x102541f70 @id=123456>

> Postly::Post.update(post.id, :title => "New Title", :body => "New Body")
=> <Postly::Post:0x102541f70 @title="New Title">

TextMate Integration

A TextMate bundle can be found in the etc/ directory. After installing to TextMate press ⌥+⌘-p to post any selection to your posterous blog. The bundle looks for .posterous in your HOME directory for login info.

###Blog Importing Blogs can be imported from any XML data that can be mapped to a Post's attributes. If any element needs special treatment, just implement a #process_<attr_name> method class method on your sub-class.

###The Importer Sub-class

class WordPressBlogImporter < Postly::BlogImporter
  
  # map values from the xml to the post attrs 
  # that you would like to set.
  def self.entity_map
    { :entry => "item", :body => "encoded", :title => "title" }
  end
  
  # any post attr can be pre-processed during import.
  def self.process_body item
    CGI.unescapeHTML(item.css("encoded").to_s).gsub(/<encoded>|<\/encoded>|\]\]>/,"")
  end

  # extract tags from the node if needed
  def self.handle_tags_for node
    node.css("category").css("category").collect \
    { |n| n.attributes["nicename"].text if n.attributes["nicename"].present?  }.compact!.join(",")
  end
  
  def self.handle_comments post, node; end

end


@dir    = File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures'
@wp_xml = File.open("#{@dir}/wp.xml", 'r')

WordPressBlogImporter.import @wp_xml.read, Postly::Site.find.last.id

###License

The MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

###Credits christopher burnett ( github.com/twoism || twoism.posterous.com )