Formstack

Simple Ruby wrapper for the Formstack (née Formspring) API.

Installation

sudo gem install formstack

Usage

You'll need a Formstack API key with appropriate permissions.

require 'formstack'

client = Formstack::Client.new("your_api_key")

Listing your forms

forms = client.forms

Getting details for a single form

form = client.form(1234)

Getting submission data for a form

data = client.data(1234, :page => 2)

Submitting data

Here's where we apply some Ruby magic. The API requires you to know the IDs of your custom form fields (e.g. field_123=blue). You're more than welcome to use IDs for your hash keys if you like, but you don't have to:

# hash keys correspond to the value of the `name` key in `form.fields`

answers = {
  :name => 'Wynn Netherland',
  :rating => 5
}

# submit answers to form 1234 - field IDs are looked up on-the-fly
client.submit(1234, :data => answers)

Editing data

# hash keys correspond to the value of the `name` key in `form.fields`

answers = {
  :name => 'Wynn Netherland',
  :rating => 5
}

# edit answers for submission 10001
client.edit(10001, :data => answers)

Deleting data

client.delete(10001)

TODO:

Handle file uploads for submissions
Intelligent permission handling for different API key access levels

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (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)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

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