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+ = thartm
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+ Remember the milk command line interface
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+ using rtmapi library
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+ patched to work with the new version of ruby-libxml ( libxml version > 2.7)
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+ if you're using an older version of libxml please refer to the old
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+ (and maybe better..) rtmapi gem.
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+ To make the cli work you have to obtain an api key
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+ and an api secret for remember the milk.
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+ Ask them at:
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+ http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/api/keys.rtm
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+ puts those keys in a .rtm file in your $HOME
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+ the file is supposed to be in YAML format
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+
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+ example:
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+ * key: yourkey
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+ * secret: yoursecret
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+ * tz: your timezone (UTC, GMT etc..)
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+
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+ Than you have to authorize the app and obtain the authorization token
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+ start thartm command line interface (executable is named rrtm for brevity)
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+ and you'll be prompted for an url
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+ The auth method could be better. I now.. give me some time :)
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+
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+
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+
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+ == Note on Patches/Pull Requests
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+
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+ * Fork the project.
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+ * Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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+ * Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a
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+ future version unintentionally.
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+ * Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.
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+ (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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+ * Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
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+
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+ == Copyright
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+ Copyright (c) 2010 thamayor. See LICENSE for details.
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+ Feel free to send me suggestions :)
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+ Thanks again to the rtmapi guys, and sorry for my bad fixies :P
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+ Mail me at: thamayor [at] gmail [dot] com
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+
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+
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+ =========== OLD readme from rtmapi gem ==========
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+ NOTICE: v0.4+ breaks the API written for v0.3. In order to speed
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+ things up (a lot), I no longer use the REXML parser, but do it with
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+ libxml. And I turn string keys into symbols, except for rtm_ids.
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+ If none of this paragraph makes sense to you, just read on...
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+
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+ This is a very bare bones API for Remember the Milk that does a minimum
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+ of error checking but should be good enough.
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+ This is also a bare bones explanation of the Ruby portion.
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+ You need to read http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/api/
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+ and familiarize yourself with the RTM API.
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+ The purpose of this code is to take care of all the grunt work in
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+ interacting with the API. The rest of this document assumes you know
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+ how to use Ruby, have a net connection, etc.
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+ To get started, you'll need
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+ 0. libxml installed. if you are reasonably lucky, a simple
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+ sudo gem install libxml-ruby
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+ will do the trick. If that fails, you probably need other packages
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+ (see http://libxml.rubyforge.org/install.html for more info)
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+
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+ You may also want to install tzinfo (sudo gem install tzinfo)
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+ 1. An RTM API KEY. See: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/api/keys.rtm
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+ You'll get back an email with an API_KEY and an API_SHARED_SECRET
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+ 2. Here's a program to test if your API key is any good. I suggest
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+ just doing this in irb.
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+ require 'rtmapi'
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+ rtm = RememberTheMilk.new( "YOUR_API_KEY", "YOUR_API_SHARED_SECRET" )
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+ echo_data = rtm.test.echo( 'my_arg_1' => 'my_value_1', 'foo' => 'bar' )
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+ echo_data.my_arg_1 # should be 'my_value_1'
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+ echo_data.foo # should be 'bar'
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+ method_names = rtm.reflection_getMethods()
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+ methods_names.size # as of now (Jun 28, 2006), there are 47 methods...
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+ 3. Getting an authorization token.
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+ In order to do anything interesting with the API, you have to get a token
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+ that authorizes you to manipulate the data in an account. The API documentation covers the different modes of authentication at
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+ http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/api/authentication.rtm
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+ (you can skip past "signing requests" -- the API takes care of that for you)
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+ Here's a program to print out a URL that you can go to in your browser.
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+ This will let you get a Token you can use for programming.
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+ require 'rtmapi'
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+ rtm = RememberTheMilk.new( "YOUR_API_KEY", "YOUR_API_SHARED_SECRET" )
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+ puts rtm.auth_url # returns http://......
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+ if you visit that URL in your browser, you'll be asked to authorize. After
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+ doing so, you'll either be given a frob value or, if you specified a
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+ callback URL, your browser will be redirected there with a frob=XXXX paramater
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+ appended on.
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+ you can then take that frob and get an auth token (and store it in a DB or
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+ whereever)
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+ require 'rtmapi'
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+ rtm = RememberTheMilk.new( "YOUR_API_KEY", "YOUR_API_SHARED_SECRET" )
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+ auth = rtm.auth.getToken( 'frob' => FROB_VALUE_YOU_WERE_GIVEN )
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+ auth.token # the token (also, auth[:token] would work)
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+ auth.perms # the perms it has (default is 'delete')
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+ auth.user # a hash of the user object (id, username, fullname)
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+ Return Values
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+ -------------
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+ The Ruby API library tends to return RememberTheMilkHash objects (except for tasks,
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+ see below).
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+ These are like normal hashes, except they implement convenience methods. They also
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+ expect most of their keys to be symbols, except for when rtm_id's are used as keys
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+ E.g.,
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+ hash = RememberTheMilkHash.new
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+ hash[:a_key] = 6
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+ hash.a_key # returns 6
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+ hash.a_key = 4
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+ hash.a_key # returns 4
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+ lists = @rtm.lists.getList
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+ lists.keys => ['43254','23424','23424']
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+ lists['43254'].rtm_id => '43254'
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+ Note, you can't initially set a value using the convenience methods, and if
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+ you access one for which there is no key, it'll throw an exception.
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+ Also, if you want to access a parameter that is already a ruby keyword
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+ (e.g., 'methods'), you'll have to use the standard hash accessors:
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+
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+ hash['methods'] will work
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+ hash.methods will NOT work (you'll get a list of methods that work on a RememberTheMilkHash)
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+
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+ [for id specifically, I created a helper method, rtm_id, so
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+ hash.rtm_id will work and overrode 'id' so that if there is
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+ an rtm_id, you get that, otherwise you get the object id. And
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+ 'id' is deprecated, so I don't feel too guilty about that.]
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+
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+ In general, you can look at the API to get a sense of whether the ruby
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+ code will return a Hash, an Array, a String, or a boolean. Also, you
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+ can look at the test code.
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+ If you want to be able to dereference non-existant keys without having
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+ an exception thrown (dangerous for coding!), do:
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+ RememberTheMilkHash::strict_keys = false
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+ and you're all set.
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+
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+ For many of the write methods (e.g., rtm.contacts.add), a transaction id
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+ and the newly written object are returned by the RTM API. I used to just have the
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+ Ruby wrapper just returns the transaction id info, throwing away whatever the
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+ particular object is. Now, it returns the modified object with an additional
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+ element in the hash 'rtm_transaction' which contains a hash of info about the
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+ transaction (the id and if it is undoable)
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+
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+ The test code itself is a little fragile, as it assumes it is accessing a
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+ particular account that your API key can't access. To get around this,
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+ I created a cache of the returned data from RTM. This means that the tests
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+ for you won't contact the RTM server, so you'll have to trust that the
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+ net communication part works :)
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+
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+ Tasks
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+ -----
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+
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+ Tasks get put into a RememberTheMilkTask, which is just this:
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+
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+ class RememberTheMilkTask < RememberTheMilkHash
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+ end
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+
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+ But this will allow you to add special functionality to tasks
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+ (e.g., mixin Enumerable and define <=> based on whatever rules you'd
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+ like). If there is interest, we can do the same thing for
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+ groups, lists, etc etc.
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+ RememberTheMilkTask also has a number of helper methods, so you can
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+ do this:
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+
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+ task = @rtm.tasks.getList.values[0].values[0] # grabs 1st task off of first list returned by API
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+ modified_task = task.setTags "tag1,tag2"
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+ modified_task_2 = modified_task.addTags "tag3"
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+ modified_task.tags => ['tag1','tag2']
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+ modified_task_2.tags => ['tag1','tag2', 'tag3']
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+
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+ all the methods for rtm.tasks.* have helper methods defined (except for getList)
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+
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+ Dates
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+ -----
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+
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+ For now, I convert incoming due dates in tasks to a Time object. I don't
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+ bother converting all the other dates, but if someone needs those converted
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+ too, let me know. To convert a Time object to a string RTM expects, do
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+ Time.now.iso8601 # now time in RTM-expected format (ISO-8601)
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+
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+ To convert an ISO-8601 time to a Time object, do Time.parse(string):
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+ now = Time.now
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+ now == Time.parse( now.iso8601 )
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+
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+ For more info, see http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/api/dates.rtm
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+ RTM will keep track the users' local timezone. The API can do this automatically,
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+ but you need to require the tzinfo lib first. See: http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/
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+ for more info. The default is to give parsed dates in the user's local timezone
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+ if tzinfo has been required. If you are writing a rails app, I recommend
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+ putting the tzinfo stuff under ~/lib (along with rtm.rb), and in your environment.rb,
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+ add this:
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+ ActiveRecord::Base.default_timezone = :utc # Store all times in the db in UTC
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+ ENV['TZ'] = 'UTC' # This makes Time.now return time in UTC
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+
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+ (I did my testing with tzinfo-0.3.3)
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+
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+ Incidentally, at the moment,
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+ rtm.tasks.setDueDate assumes the date is in the user's timezone when it
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+ is running with :parse => 1
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+ The RTM folks may change this behavior in the future.
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+ If you don't want dates converted to the user's local TZ, do
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+ @rtm.use_user_tz = false
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+
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+ For now, we cache a user's timezone info (cache index is keyed off of auth_token)
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+ so it's not too painful to convert a ton of dates. You can call @rtm.logout(auth_token)
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+ to erase the cache for that user. I need to make that a cleaner interface.
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+
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+ Exceptions
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+ ----------
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+
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+ If the RTM API returns an error, the Ruby API throws a RememberTheMilkError.
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+ There are getters for the raw XML response, the parsed error code
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+ and the parsed message:
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+ error.response # returns a REXML element
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+ error.error_code # returns a FixNum
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+ error.message # returns a string
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+
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+
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+ Debugging
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+ ---------
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+ To see copious debugging output,
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+ rtm.debug = true
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+ This will show you the method calls being made, how they are being packaged,
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+ and what the raw (XML) response from the server is.
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+ Other stuff
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+ -----------
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+
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+ 1. I made heavy use of method_missing so you could write nice looking method
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+ calls. E.g.,
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+ rtm.reflection.getMethods()
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+
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+ instead of
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+ rtm.call_api_method( 'reflection.getMethods' )
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+
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+ As long as the RTM API doesn't conflict with Ruby keywords, we should be all
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+ set. You can always directly invoke call_api_method() if you need/want to.
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+
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+ 2. You can use symbols or strings in a RTM method call, and if you
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+ use a Fixnum, it gets converted to a string.
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+ so, these are all equivalent:
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+ rtm.test.echo( 'arg1' => 'value1', 'arg2' => '666', 'arg3' => 'foobar' )
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+ rtm.test.echo( :arg1 => 'value1', :arg2 => 666, :arg3 => :foobar )
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+ rtm.test.echo( :arg1 => 'value1', 'arg2' => 666, 'arg3' => :foobar )
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+
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+ (We just blindly call to to_s() on every argument to package it up for a
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+ method call to the RTM API)
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+ Other questions/comments/complaints?
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+ ------------------------------------
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+ Email me at yanowitz+rtmapi AT gmail
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+ PS: Many thanks to the good folks at RTM for a very useful product!
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+ If you come up with interesting uses for this API, please drop me a
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+ line. Thanks.