PowerReviews
Integrates the third party PowerReviews service with Ruby. Currently focused on Ruby on Rails but includes some tools to aid in non-rails tasks like data feed generation and automated zip downloads/uploads.
Dependencies
PowerReviews gem requires FasterCSV for csv generation and Whenever for managing your crontab. It also requires that a native zip
tool be installed.
which zip
# /usr/bin/zip
Getting Started
Step one, install the gem.
In your rails environment file:
config.gem 'power_reviews', :source => 'http://gems.k2sportsdev.com'
Then
rake gems:install
or from your shell:
gem install power_reviews --source=http://gems.k2sportsdev.com
With the gem installed it’s now time to generate the necessary files in your rails project. From the root of your rails project run:
script/generate power_reviews
Which will output:
exists lib/tasks
create lib/tasks/power_reviews_tasks.rake
exists config/initializers
create config/power_reviews.yml
create config/initializers/power_reviews.rb
create config/schedule.rb
Power Reviews configuration
Define which files the PowerReviews::Sync class will be looking for when doing its nigtly download of files, like the database.yml file in your rails configuration you can have a different configuration for each environment. In this example, for development PowerReviews will use the local filesystem instead of connection to the ftp server with the live data.
:protocol
-
is the type of sync client you wish to use
:cp
or:ftp
- :zipl
-
the zip file you will receive from Power Reviews
development:
protocol: cp
zip: test/brand.zip
done: test/brand_done.txt
datafeed: tmp/brand_feed.zip
production:
protocol: ftp
zip: brand.zip
done: brand_done.txt
data_feed: brand_data.zip
host: partners.powerreviews.com
username: user
password: passy
Example
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