Quite a few of those services have "official" or unofficial ruby libraries so you don't need to roll your own.
last.fm - http://scrobbler.rubyforge.org/ Twitter - http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org/ Google Calendar - http://rubyforge.org/projects/gcalapi/ (never seen this one before, no idea how good it is) Haven't looked for the others... In terms of a general purpose API helper library, I don't know of anything. If you find out please let me know! I keep writing the libraries myself with SOAP4R and Hpricot and would love to stop doing so. H. On 18/9/2008, "Tim Gossett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Slightly OT for this list, but relevant to any extensions that may be out >there or in the works... > >I'm enjoying the bliss of Twitter syncing with my Facebook status, Last.fm >scrobbling everything I do in iTunes, and Spanning Sync making Address Book, >iCal, and the Gcloud play nice. I've been wanting to get a blog going >(doesn't everyone?), and I'm curious what sort of API hooks I might be able >to utilize to supplement my sporatic posting. > >So are there any Radiant extensions that tred the intersection of blogging >and API hooks? What other blogging frameworks take advantage of APIs? > >I'm also enjoying the bliss of Radiant's layouts and snippets... so much >simpler than other CMSes I've used. Given the choice between Radiant's >elegance and hooking into Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, LinkedIn, GitHub, >GCal, and even RTM... I'd choose Radiant. > >At the risk of rambling (too late?), I'm curious if anyone knows of anything >more elegant than Builder, Net::HTTP, and Hpricot for working with APIs? >Maybe I'll just get blogging on Radiant and write some extensions to hook >into those services above. > >-- >Tim >_______________________________________________ >Radiant mailing list >Post: [email protected] >Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ >Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
