Spruce ↟¶ ↑

Spruce is a Ruby wrapper around the Forrst API. The Forrst API is currently a moving target and the plan is to develop Spruce alongside it, as close as possible. Spruce will support authentication via API tokens.

gem install spruce

The YAJL C Bindings for Ruby are so full of AWESOME that it is almost impossible to not use them everywhere JSON is involved, so I didn’t.

I’m also temporarily using the REST Client gem until the Forrst API returns the correct MIME type and status codes.

require 'rubygems'
require 'forrst' # or require 'spruce'

# Retrieve a user by username
kyle = Forrst::User.find 'kyle'

# Kyles latest PUBLIC posts
kyle.public_posts

# The type of Kyles latest PUBLIC post
kyle.public_posts[0].post_type

# Kyles PUBLIC posts before post_id 5000
kyle.public_posts_before(5000)

# Retrieve a user by id
peter = Forrst::User.find 5079

• Forrst API

• YAJL C Bindings for Ruby

Implement the different post types by subclassing Forrst::Post

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