Glassfrog

A Ruby interface for the GlassFrog API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'glassfrog'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install glassfrog

Documentation

To generate local rdocs run:

$ rdoc

Configuration

The GlassFrog API requires a personally generated GlassFrog API key.

This can be passed into Glassfrog::Client.new as a String, Hash, or a Block.

client = Glassfrog::Client.new("YOUR_API_KEY")

client = Glassfrog::Client.new({ 
    api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY" 
})

client = Glassfrog::Client.new do |config|
    config.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"
end

Usage

This GlassFrog interface also has a caching feature which allows http requests to be cached and only sent once.

To set caching with the default (temporary) cache, pass true to the caching variable.

client = Glassfrog::Client.new({ 
    api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    caching: true
})

client = Glassfrog::Client.new do |config|
    config.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"
    config.caching = true
end

You can change the location of the cache file (or storage type) by passing in a caching_settings Hash.

client = Glassfrog::Client.new({ 
    api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    caching: true,
    caching_settings: {
        :metastore   => 'file:/var/cache/rack/meta',
        :entitystore => 'file:/var/cache/rack/body'
    }
})

client = Glassfrog::Client.new do |config|
    config.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"
    config.caching = true
    config.caching_settings = {
        :metastore   => 'file:/var/cache/rack/meta',
        :entitystore => 'file:/var/cache/rack/body'
    }
end

Once the client has been configured:

GET all circles (or other objects)

circles = client.get :circles
roles = client.get :roles

GET a specific circle (or other object) with an ID

circle_1 = client.get :circle, 1
role_1 = client.get :role, 1

GET a specific circle (or other object) with an object with an ID

circle_1 = client.get :circle, Glassfrog::Circle.new({ id: 1 })
role_1 = client.get :role, Glassfrog::Role.new({ id: 1 })

Note: Updating certain objects require specific keys (people requires admin access)

Create a checklist item, metric, person, or project with POST and an object

new_person = client.post :person, Glassfrog::Person.new({ 
    name: 'Jim Bob', 
    email: '[email protected]' 
})

Create a checklist item, metric, person, or project with POST and a Hash

new_person = client.post :person, { 
    name: 'Jim Bob', 
    email: '[email protected]' 
}

Update a checklist item, metric, person, or project with PATCH and an object (returns update object)

updated_person = client.patch :person, Glassfrog::Person.new({
    id: 1, 
    email: '[email protected]' 
})

Update a checklist item, metric, person, or project with PATCH and a Hash (returns update options)

updated_person = client.patch :person, { 
    id: 1
    email: '[email protected]' 
})

Update a checklist item, metric, person, or project with PATCH, a Hash (or an object), and a supplied identifier (returns update options)

updated_person = client.patch :person, 1, {
    email: '[email protected]' 
})

Delete a checklist item, metric, person, or project with DELETE and an object (returns boolean)

was_deleted = client.patch :person, { 
    id: 1
    email: '[email protected]' 
})

Delete a checklist item, metric, person, or projectw with DELETE and an identifier (returns boolean)

was_deleted = client.patch :person, 1

Build a hierarchy from an array of circles and roles, or get them from GlassFrog

root_circle = client.build_hierarchy circles, roles
root_circle_from_get = client.build_hierarchy

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/UCSoftware/glassfrog.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.