From: David Turnbull <accounts@...>
Date: 2010-04-25T16:30:30+09:00
Subject: Posting to Tumblr with Ruby

I'm a Ruby/programming noob and one piece of advice I keep seeing pop up
from Ruby "gurus" is that you should play with real code and build real
things. Seeing as I would one day like to build a Tumblr client with
MacRuby, I thought I'd get acquainted with the process via Ruby on its
lonesome.

Problem is, like I said, I'm a noob and I have no idea what I'm doing.

I found the "tumblr-rb" gem (http://github.com/mwunsch/tumblr) which
I've installed, and have successfully posted to Tumblr via the command
line, but I have no idea how to use/manipulate this sample code:

request = Tumblr.new(username, password).post(document)
request.perform do |response|
    if response.success?
        puts response.body  # Returns the new post's id.
    else
        puts "Something went wrong: #{response.code}
#{response.message}"
    end
end

Would appreciate any direction you could give me. :-)
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