RTFM - Real Time Foto Moderator

Real Time Foto Moderator (RTFM) is Crowdsourced Image Moderation, learn more at http://crowdflower.com/rtfm. This gem is a simple wrapper for interacting with the API. Keep your app clean!

Usage

gem install crowdflower-rtfm

require 'rubygems'
require 'crowdflower-rtfm'

RTFM.api_key = "a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0..."
#moderate_image accepts an optional metadata hash
res = RTFM.moderate_image("http://mysite.com/images/moderateme.jpg", {:id => 123})
RTFM.retrieve_image(res["image"]["id"])

Exceptions

All exceptions thrown by the gem itself inherit from RTFM::Error. Below are the possible exceptions:

  • RateLimitError - (rate limit exceeded)
  • PaymentError - (account is out of money)
  • AccountError - (your account is not authorized for this service)
  • AuthenticationError - (your API key is invalid)
  • InvalidRequestError - (one of your parameters is invalid, usually url)
  • APIError - (a non 200 response code was returned, see the docs)
  • APIConnectionError - (a network error occured)

Webhook example

We've also included an example Sinatra server to consume webhooks from RTFM. You can find it at https://github.com/dolores/rtfm-ruby/tree/master/examples

Acknowledgements

The implementation of this wrapper was inspired heavily by Stripes Ruby implementation (https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby). Thanks to Ross Boucher & Greg Brockman for bending RestClient to their will.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2012 CrowdFlower. See LICENSE.txt for further details.