A Ruby command line utility and wrapper for the DNSimple API.

DNSimple is a hosted DNS service that can be found at dnsimple.com/

Credentials

Create a file in your home directory called .dnsimple

In this file add the following:

username: YOUR_USERNAME password: YOUR_PASSWORD

Commands

There are two ways to interact with the DNSimple Ruby wrapper. The first is to use the command line utility that is included. The commands available are as follows:

For help:

  • dnsimple help

The following commands are available for domains:

  • dnsimple list

  • dnsimple describe domain.com

  • dnsimple create domain.com

  • dnsimple register domain.com registrant_id

  • dnsimple transfer domain.com registrant_id [authinfo]

  • dnsimple delete domain.com

  • dnsimple apply domain.com template_short_name

Please note that domain registration and transfer can only be done through the API for domains that do not require extended attributes. A future version of the API will add support for extended attributes.

The following commands are available for records:

  • dnsimple record:create [–prio=priority] domain.com name type content [ttl]

  • dnsimple record:list domain.com

  • dnsimple record:delete domain.com record_id

The following commands are available for custom templates:

  • dnsimple template:list

  • dnsimple template:create name short_name [description]

  • dnsimple template:delete short_name

  • dnsimple template:list_records short_name

  • dnsimple template:add_record short_name name type content [ttl] [prio]

  • dnsimple template:delete_record short_name template_record_id

The following commands are available for managing contacts:

  • dnsimple contact:list

  • dnsimple contact:describe id

  • dnsimple contact:create [name:value name:value …]

  • dnsimple contact:update id [name:value name:value …]

  • dnsimple contact:delete id

The following commands are available for purchasing certificates:

  • dnsimple certificate:purchase domain.com name contact_id

  • dnsimple certificate:submit id

The contact name/value pairs are:

  • first_name

  • last_name

  • organization_name (optional)

  • job_title (required if organization name is specified)

  • address1

  • address2 (optional)

  • city

  • state_province (also aliased as state)

  • postal_code

  • country

  • email

  • phone

  • phone_ext (optional)

  • fax (optional)

Wrapper Classes

In addition to the command line utility you may also use the included Ruby classes directly in your Ruby applications.

Sample:

require 'rubygems'
require 'dnsimple'

DNSimple::Client.username = 'YOUR_USERNAME'
DNSimple::Client.password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD'

puts "Domains..."
Domain.all.each do |domain|
  puts "  #{domain.name}"
end

domain = Domain.find("example.com")
domain.apply("template") # applies a standard or custom template to the domain

domain = Domain.create("newdomain.com")
puts "Added #{domain.name}"
domain.delete # removes from DNSimple

The complete RDoc for the wrapper classes can be found here: 

http://rdoc.info/projects/aetrion/dnsimple-ruby

Running Rspec Tests

There are two ways you can run the tests, either using VCR mocked responses or by hitting the test site. Either way you need to create a configuration file in your home directory called .dnsimple.local. To run the tests with the DNSimple test site this file should include:

username: [email protected]
password: test

And in spec/spec_helper.rb uncomment this line:

# c.allow_http_connections_when_no_cassette = true

The username and password must match the credentials you used to create your account on test.dnsimple.com. To run the tests with VCR mocks you need to include an additional line in the .dnsimple.local file:

site: "http://localhost:3000"

All of the VCR mocks trigger on localhost:3000. If you are using VCR mocks you should leave c.allow_http_connections_when_no_cassette = true commented out.