Hey guys- I started working on a Ruby client library for the REST api. It is far from complete, but you can check it out at Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/spacer/. I'll make an announcement when its ready for release and put up some documentation.

Cool! Whenever its ready, I'll check it out.

-Thanks
-V

Hi, Let me know if I can help. I am working on a couple myspace apps on Rails as well. David

Hey guys,

I released the Ruby client lib. It generates Ruby objects for method calls, so you don't have to worry about parsing JSON or XML on your own.

Install with: sudo gem install spacer

The (rather sparse) documentation is at: http://spacer.rubyforge.org/

Use like:

 @myspace = Spacer::Client.new(api_key, secret_key)
  user = @myspace.user('3454354')
  puts user.interests.music
  puts user.photos.first.caption

I'll start a Google Group for questions/comments. Please submit test-driven patches to Rubyforge (http://rubyforge.org/projects/spacer/). Keep in mind that this is super alpha software and no where near a 1.0. For example there is no error handling yet.

Enjoy!

 Awesome.. I'll send you patches if/when I find any bugs :)

ok

 

Thanks for putting this together.  I'm getting the following error.  Any idea what might be causing it?  I have the activerecord gem installed and it looks like the decode method is defined to me.

NoMethodError (undefined method `decode' for ActiveSupport::JSON:Module):
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/spacer-0.5.0/lib/spacer/client.rb:134:in `do_request'
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/spacer-0.5.0/lib/spacer/client.rb:21:in `user'

Thanks 

the decode method is in the active support 2.0.2 but its not in 1.2.6

maybe you could make sure its pulling in the correct gem

ooh ooh ooh thank you! :D

I'm far from a developer, but have been learning ruby, and want to start building my own stuff (just for fun, I could never compete with a "real" engineer) - this is really cool.

 Hi,

I feel a bit stupid to ask, but in the line

@myspace = Spacer::Client.new(api_key, secret_key)

what is api_key and secret_key?How do they relate to the oAuth stuff I see on over here?

Thanks for hints
Cheers
Michael

 no worries, I figured it out.

for all others: the values are on the app details page 

StephanieBamBam:

ooh ooh ooh thank you! :D

I'm far from a developer, but have been learning ruby, and want to start building my own stuff (just for fun, I could never compete with a "real" engineer) - this is really cool.

Ruby is the way to go.. congrats! You don't have to be an engineer to build stuff. I was a self-taught programmer before I even went to school.

Michael:

 no worries, I figured it out.

for all others: the values are on the app details page 

And just to clarify, the api key is your application url, and the secret key is, well... the secret key :)

I just wrote a simple test script to test out this gem, looks like you're now missing a new attribute for models/user.rb, namely, you might have to add the largeimage attribute to the attr_accessor list for it to work.