r43 hits beta! 0.3.0 release

[pat eyler]

Thanks to the efforts of several people in the Ruby Programming Shop,
r43 (the library providing access to the 43 Things web services) is now
available for download from:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/r43/

You can now use r43 to access any non-authenticated methods available
from all of the 43things websites (es, de, ideas, etc.)

--
thanks,
-pate
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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because
they want to know something else, and would therefore only
misunderstand what we said
- the Raven (George MacDonald, Lilith)

[Brian Wisti]

Hey Pat,

Sounds like a cool project. Where can I find documentation and/or
examples? I've managed to find the rdocs from the installed gem, but
now I'm wondering about general-purpose "getting started" code :-)

Kind Regards,

Brian Wisti
http://coolnamehere.com/

[pat eyler]

On 8/3/05, Brian Wisti <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Pat,
>
> Sounds like a cool project. Where can I find documentation and/or
> examples? I've managed to find the rdocs from the installed gem, but
> now I'm wondering about general-purpose "getting started" code :-)
>
> Kind Regards,

well, the readme has some examples in it ... I guess we should
incorporate that into the rdoc. File a bug report if you don't mind.

Here's a quick example though:

require 'r43'
connection = R43::Connection.new(1234, 'www.43things.com')
person = connection.get_person('pate')
person.goals.each do |goal|
puts "pate wants to #{goal.name}"
end

Is there something more interesting that you want to do? I'd be happy to
turn that into an example.

>
> Brian Wisti
> http://coolnamehere.com/

[Brian Wisti]

On 8/3/05, pat eyler <pat....@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/3/05, Brian Wisti <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey Pat,
> >
> > Sounds like a cool project. Where can I find documentation and/or
> > examples? I've managed to find the rdocs from the installed gem, but
> > now I'm wondering about general-purpose "getting started" code :-)
> >
> > Kind Regards,
>
> well, the readme has some examples in it ... I guess we should
> incorporate that into the rdoc. File a bug report if you don't mind.
>
> Here's a quick example though:
>
> require 'r43'
> connection = R43::Connection.new(1234, 'www.43things.com')
> person = connection.get_person('pate')
> person.goals.each do |goal|
> puts "pate wants to #{goal.name}"
> end
>
>
> Is there something more interesting that you want to do? I'd be happy to
> turn that into an example.

That's good enough to get me started poking at it, so I am good to go.
I guess the meta-question was something along the lines of "do you
plan on creating any tutorial-style material for other new users and
putting it on a r43 site?" You can put it on the back burner if you
like, because - like I said - I'm good to go now.

[pat eyler]

That's actually a really good idea. I'll put it into my short term plans.

Thanks for the positive feedback. Please let me know how things
go as you start to use r43.

>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Brian Wisti
> http://coolnamehere.com/
>
>