http://github.com/richmolj/whoa

Simple Active-Recordy API to the Google Website Optimizer (WO) API. Create experiments, start/stop/modify/search them, add/modify pages, get code snippets, etc.

No Rails required.

> Whoa.email = 'xxxxx'

> Whoa.password = 'xxxxx'

> Whoa.account_id = 'xxxxx'

Uses ClientLogin. OAuth coming soon.

Just think Active Record.

Create

> Whoa::Experiment.create(:title => "My New Experiment")

or

> Whoa::Experiment.new

> Whoa::Experiment.title = "My New Experiment"

> Whoa::Experiment.save

Update

> Whoa::Experiment.update_attributes(:title => "My new title") 

Read

> Whoa::Experiment.all(:status => "Running")

> Whoa::Experiment.first(:title => "Foo")

> Whoa::Experiment.find(123456)

If you're wondering what you can get/set, take a look at the WO API docs. You also have the handy #attributes method.

Delete:

Whoa::Experiment.first.destroy

Experiments and Pages get a nice #to_xml method as well, though it won't include all attributes (see TODO)

Some handy shortcuts:

@experiment.copy!

@experiment.start!

@experiment.stop!

Each experiment has #tracking_script, #control_script and #conversion_script. You'll need to inject this code into your pages somehow to get experiments working.

Note that unlike the manual WO setup, the API doesn't validate your live site for tracking code. This is actually pretty handy, since you can inject code and start experiments independent of each other depending on your workflow.

Experiments have many pages; each page belongs to an experiment.

@experiment.pages.first

@experiment.create_page(:title => "foo", :content => "bar")

• rest-client >= 0.4.2
• happymapper >= 0.3.0
• active_support >= 2.2.0

• OAuth
• Right now, this only works for A/B experiments, not multivariate
• Validations could be better handled
• Defining what you can get/set is a bit murky.
• Some additional API corner cases and AR-like sugar
• Testing. It's open-source, I slacked.
• Haven't bothered with trying other versions of dependencies. I'm almost positive you'd get away with an older verison of ActiveSupport.

Copyright (c) 2009 richmolj@gmail.com

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