shared_book¶ ↑

• github.com/xunker/shared_book

A Ruby Gem to connect to the SharedBook.com publishing API.

This version provides 1:1 method call structure to the SharedBook rest-like API.

s = SharedBook.new(
  :product_api_key => "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-x",
  :product_secret_word => "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-x",
  :auth_token => "xxxxx_xxx",
  :get_session_token => true
)

s.bmscreate_init('test book',
  [{:chapterTitle => 'chapter 1', :chapterText => 'text'}, {:chapterTitle => 'chapter 2', :chapterText => 'text'}]
)

s.bmscreate_publish

s.bms_addComment(:comment_title => 'comment', :comment_text => 'text', :owner_name => 'George')

s.bms_addPhoto_by_url(:file_url => 'http://www.example.com/images/logo.png', :owner_name => 'Geroge')
s.bms_addPhoto_by_handle(:file_name => "../images/angry_squirrel.jpg", :file_mime => "image/jpeg", :owner_name => 'Gerogee')
s.bms_setFrontCoverPhoto(:file_name => "../images/angry_squirrel.jpg", :file_mime => "image/jpeg", :owner_name => 'Gerogee')
s.bms_setBackCoverPhoto(:file_name => "../images/angry_squirrel.jpg", :file_mime => "image/jpeg", :owner_name => 'Gerogee')

s.bms_publish
s.bookcreate_init
s.bookcreate_setDedication(:dedication_text => 'Dedicated!')
s.bookcreate_publish
s.book_preview

Before calling SharedBook.new you will need to send you web client to the URL provided by SharedBook.auth_login_url. This URL will return the user to your SharedBook.com return URL and it will have a unique auth token appended to the query string. You must retrieve that token and pass it in to SharedBook.new as :auth_token.

For testing you can call SharedBook.new with an :auth_token value of ‘auto’ which will automatically get this token for you but the preview URL given my book_preview will be inaccessible. :auth_token => ‘auto’ should never, ever, ever be used for production purposes.

During a real usage scenario, the order of operations should follow roughtly:

s = SharedBook.new
s.bmscreate_init
s.bmscreate_publish
s.bms_addComment
s.bms_addPhoto_by_url
s.bms_addPhoto_by_handle
s.bms_setFrontCoverPhoto
s.bms_setBackCoverPhoto
s.bms_publish
s.bookcreate_init
s.bookcreate_setDedication
s.bookcreate_publish
s.book_preview

This library is useless unless you have an account at SharedBook.com.

You will need to know your the API key and secret word for your product and pass them in to the constructor.

gem install shared_book

• Add the ability to post a picture using data from a string, not just a URL or filename.

• Add a more ruby-like method for creating a new SharedBook object.

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2010 Matthew Nielsen

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