Some notes on using the RubyForge API with HTTParty

Author: Tom Copeland

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@@ -35,7 +35,15 @@ <h3>Accessing the API</h3>
 <p><b>Quotas</b>: Please don't hit the API more than 3600 times per hour or you'll be blocked.</p>
 
 <h4>Accessing the API via Ruby</h4>
-<p>TODO.  Basically, see the rubyforge gem for some pointers.  Or just use Net::HTTP or httparty along with the json library.</p>
+<p>Use John Nunemaker's excellent <a href="http://httparty.rubyforge.org/">HTTParty</a> library.  Like this:</p>
+<pre>
+$ irb -rhttparty
+&gt;&gt; class RubyForge ; include HTTParty ; base_uri 'api.rubyforge.org' ; basic_auth 'username', 'password' ; end
+=&gt; {:username=&gt;>"username", :password=&gt;"password"}
+&gt;&gt; RubyForge.get('/mirrors').first
+=&gt; {"mirror"=&gt;{"updated_at"=&gt;Fri Aug 28 17:49:17 UTC 2009, "serves_gems"=&gt;true, "domain"=&gt;"rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk", "url"=&gt;"http://gems.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk", "created_at"=&gt;Fri Aug 28 17:49:17 UTC 2009, "serves_files"=&gt;false}}
+</pre>
+
 <h4>Accessing the API via curl</h4>
 <p>Edit your <code>~/.netrc</code> file and add your RubyForge username and password:</p>
 <pre>