impostor
by Mike Mondragon
https://github.com/monde/impostor
http://impostor.rubyforge.org/

== DESCRIPTION:

imPOSTor posts messages to forums

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

Makes automated posts to the following forum applications:

* Web Wiz Forums (WWF) 7.9
* Web Wiz Forums (WWF) 8.0
* PHP Bullitin Board (phpBB) 2.2
* PHP Bullitin Board (phpBB) 3.0

== SYNOPSIS:

# config yaml has options specific to wwf79, phpbb2, etc.
# Read the impostor docs for configuration options for the kind of forum to
# be accessed.
# config can be keyed by symbols or strings
config = YAML::load_file('conf/impostor.yml')
impostor = Impostor.new(config)
message = %qworld is to application
programmers as tea pots are to graphics programmers
# your application stores forum and topic ids
impostor.post(forum=5,topic=10,message)
# make a new topic
subject = "about programmers..."
impostor.new_topic(forum=7,subject,message)

== REQUIREMENTS:

* hoe
* mechanize
* nokogiri

== SOURCE

git clone git://github.com/monde/impostor.git

== INSTALL:

* gem install impostor

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008-2011 Mike Mondragon

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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