Tagcrumbs Gem

DESCRIPTION:

This is a RubyGem that provides an ActiveRecord-like interface to the www.tagcrumbs.com web service.

WEBSITES:

• www.tagcrumbs.com/

• wiki.tagcrumbs.com/developers

• github.com/tagcrumbs/tagcrumbs_gem

• tagcrumbs.rubyforge.org/

FEATURES:

• ActiveRecord and ActiveResource-like interface

• Support for OAuth authorization (3-legged and 2-legged)

• Automatic loading of associated Models when they are accessed (just like ActiveRecord associations)

• JSON and XML support

• URLs are loaded from the web service and are not build manually to automatically adapt to smaller changes

• A console program to interactively create new Placemarks or to create a Placemark by passing command line arguments (scripting support)

• Validation error messages are read from the server and loaded into the objects

• Find Tagcrumbs by many filter criteria

• Load name, tag and city suggestions to help a user create a new placemark

• Create new User Accounts on tagcrumbs.com

SYNOPSIS:

• see the examples directory for some usage examples

REQUIREMENTS:

• activesupport

• hpricot

• htmlentities

• json

• oauth

• mime-types

• builder

INSTALL:

• sudo gem install tagcrumbs

SPECS:

Some fixtures are in a git submodule, this makes them reusable for different libraries. If you want to run the tests execute the following first:

git submodule init git submodule update

LICENSE:

• see License.txt for more information