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[.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.