First off I am not affiliated with Socialcast the company in any way.

SocialcastAPI is a ruby interface to the RESTful API provided by Socialcast.com for interacting with their services as outlined here:

www.socialcast.com/resources/api.html

Here I am implementing it using the ActiveResource library

api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveResource/Base.html

which supports dynamically generating Ruby objects from the XML or JSON structures returned from the calls to the web services. At this point it is mostly functional, I haven’t really started playing with the attachments portion yet so don’t expect that to work at the moment. I need to add a lot of documentation and examples though. That’s probably the next big thing to be done.

# Post a new message to your general purpose stream Message.new(:body => ‘This was sent via the API’)

# Find the user named John Smith User.search(:q => ‘john smith’).first

# List the top 10 users who have posted the most #worklogs users = Hash.new(0)

Message.search_all_pages(:q => ‘#worklog’).each do |message|

users[message.user.name] += 1

end

users.sort {|a,b| a <=> b}.reverse.first(10).each {|user| puts “#{user}: #1”}

# Print count of all users in the community puts User.all_pages.count

# Print all users name and url User.all_pages.each_with_index do |user, index|

puts "#{index}: #{user.name} - #{user.url}"

end

More examples to come.