by Zach Holman (brightkite)

brightkitey is a cute little wrapper around Brightkite's API. It's possibly horribly broken and incomplete, but it's getting there. Pull requests welcome and appreciated.

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install holman-brightkitey

To get a feel for what you're in for, check out the Brightkite REST API. The object reference might be helpful, too. Some fun things you can do:

require 'rubygems'
require 'brightkitey'

Brightkitey.authenticate(:user => 'dr_strangelove', :password => 'cant-allow-gaps')
Brightkitey.logged_in? # quick login check

me = Brightkitey.me
me.friends.first.checkins # => grab a friend's checkins

home = me.checkins.first.place
me.checkin(home) # => check yourself in at home

Brightkitey::Place.search("arby's") # => mmmm... I'm thinking Arby's. If you're logged in, this'll pull in those closest to you first.

The official Lighthouse wrapper was fairly helpful for a newbie like me to wrap my head around. Thankee, Justin.

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008 Zach Holman

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