Project: hackershout - The Ruby Toolbox

#Hackershout

Shout your hackerness to the world!

Hackershout lets you promote your open-source work on the major Ruby (and geek related) community blogs (Reddit, Hackernews and RubyFlow) via a nice command line interface.

##Install

$ gem install hackershout

##Known caveats

Publishing to Reddit is not available yet.

##Notes

Through hackershout you publish an URL and a text. To link the URL from the text you just have to use the special <link> tag. Note that for certain sites, such as RubyFlow, you have to link the URL from the text, since there is no separate URL field. Hackershout will omit the special tag where it doesn't need it (for example, in Reddit).

You can add additional links with normal HTML <a> tags.

Given http://rubygems.org/gems/my_gem as an URL, an example of a message would be:

Hey! I have released <link>some awesome open-source gem</link> that is
going to save the world. Check it out! You can also grab the source code on
<a href="http://github.com/me/my_gem">Github</a> if you want.

This will publish in Reddit like this:

URL:  http://rubygems.org/gems/my_gem
TEXT: Hey! I have released some awesome open-source gem that is going to
save the world. Check it out! You can also grab the source code on
<a href="http://github.com/me/my_gem">Github</a> if you want.

And on RubyFlow (where there is no separate URL field) like this:

TEXT: Hey! I have released <a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/my_gem">some
awesome open-source gem</a> that is going to save the world. Check it out!
You can also grab the source code on <a href="http://github.com/me/my_gem">
Github</a> if you want.

##Usage

$ hackershout

:: Welcome to hackershout! ::

Type the URL you want to share: http://rubygems.com/gems/my_gem
Enter a brief, descriptive title: Released MyGem 1.0!

Bear in mind that some services may require a more extended text aside from the title.
Type your message (two ENTERs to finish):
Hey! I have released <link>some awesome open-source gem</link> that is
going to save the world. Check it out! You can also grab the source code
on <a href="http://github.com/me/my_gem">Github</a> if you want.(enter)
(enter)
Type some tags separated by comma (i.e. ruby, rails, bdd): ruby, parsing

...Got it! Now where would you want to spread the word?
  Ruby Reddit (y/n)? y
Sorry, I don't have your Ruby Reddit credentials.
  E-mail: my.email@gmail.com
  Password: ********
Saved! You won't have to enter your credentials for Ruby Reddit again.
  Hackernews (y/n)? y
  RubyFlow (y/n)? n
Fine.
Posting to Ruby Reddit...........ok
Posting to Hackernews............ok

Done. Happy hacking! :)

##Contribute!

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add specs 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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