From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T12:55:39+09:00
Subject: Re: rsync on rubyforge?

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 00:47 +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> don't worry too much.  it's easy to do from the client side using my rubyforge
> script.

Cool, OK, sounds good.

> btw.  one of the things that's really hard about that script is that i cannot
> easily get info about the account - the ids of things like release, files,
> etc.  is there any infomational page i could hit or a web service to get that
> info?  i'd love it if there were a yaml page one could grab that exported the
> metadata about one's account...  so
> 
>    data = YAML::load(curl_down_account_page)
> 
>    data['releases'].each do |release, release_id|
>      ...
>    end
> 
> make sense?

Hm, yup.  There is a SOAP service, although I can't say I've used it:

http://rubyforge.org/soap/

Maybe that can yield up some good results?

Yours,

Tom