Rubymarks

A Ruby gem (and Rails plugin) which generates links for social bookmarking services.

Licensed under the MIT license (See COPYING file for details)

Author: James Smith (james@floppy.org.uk / www.floppy.org.uk)

Homepage: github.com/Floppy/rubymarks

INSTALLATION

1) Enable gems from github, if you haven’t already done so (rubygems >= 1.2):

> sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com

2) Install gem

> sudo gem install Floppy-rubymarks

RAILS PLUGIN

This gem can be used as a Rails plugin. You can either extract it into vendor/plugins, or use the new-style config.gem command in environment.rb. For example:

config.gem "Floppy-rubymarks", :lib => "rubymarks", :source => "http://gems.github.com", :version => '>= 0.0.1'

USAGE

Once you’ve done that, you can use bookmark_tag in your views and controllers to generate an HTML link tag, or bookmark_url to just generate the URL. Examples:

bookmark_url :tinyurl, "http://www.google.com"
bookmark_tag :facebook, "http://www.google.com", :title => "Google"

Both functions accepts the following options - not all work with all services.

:title - a title for the link (string)
:text - some explanatory text to go with the link (string)
:new_window - open the bookmark link in a new window (true or false)

Services supported are:

:facebook
:digg
:delicious
:stumbleupon
:twitter
:reddit
:windowslive
:google
:myaol
:magnolia
:technorati
:newsvine
:myspace
:tinyurl
:snurl