Each week I edit the Rails Envy podcast. We use Backpack to work together on the stories each week. Each story is a note in the Backpack page:
Today while I was preparing the post, I remembered that Backpack had an API. A quick google turned up the Backpack API page with a link to the Ruby wrapper. About 10 minutes and some regular expressions later I had a script to auto format the weekly podcast links each week by just passing in the page id.
require 'rubygems' require 'XmlSimple' require 'ruby_wrapper' stories = [] backpack = Backpack.new('username', 'api key'); backpack.page_id='the page you want' notes = backpack.list_notes notes = notes['notes'].first['note'] # {'title' => 'A note', 'id' => 'An id', 'content' => 'asdf followed by a url'} notes.each do |note| story_link = note['content'].scan(/(http\:\/\/.*)$/m)[0] stories.push("<li><a title=\"#{note['title']}\" href=\"#{story_link}\" rel=\"nofollow\">#{note['title']}</a></li>".gsub(/\n/,'')) end puts stories.join("\n")
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