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Takes nice Ruby parameter hashes and spits out whatever crap you need it to. A simple way to provide a custom Ruby interface for the request side of an API wrapper. Based on @mislav’s nibbler.

gem install spitter

class ApiClient < Spitter
  parameter :ruby_param => 'apiCamelCaseDataFlag'
end

$ ApiClient.parse(:ruby_param => '1')
=> {'apiCamelCaseDataFlag' => '1'}

class ApiClient < Spitter
  parameter :ruby_param => 'apiCamelCaseDataFlag', :with => lambda {|v| v ? '1' : '0'}
end

$ ApiClient.parse(:ruby_param => true)
=> {'apiCamelCaseDataFlag' => '1'}

class ApiClient < Spitter
  class TrueOrFalse
    def self.parse(val)
      val ? '1' : '0'
    end
  end

  parameter :ruby_param => 'apiCamelCaseDataFlag', :with => TrueOrFalse
end

$ ApiClient.parse(:ruby_param => true)
=> {'apiCamelCaseDataFlag' => '1'}

class ApiClient < Spitter
  parameter :timestamp, :with => lambda{|v| v.to_i.to_s }
end

$ ApiClient.parse(:timestamp => Time.now)
=> {'timestamp' => '1341162393'}

The MIT License

Spitter is based on @mislav’s nibbler.