rubyoverflow 0.5

Question

About

rubyoverflow is an ruby wrapper for the Stack Exchange API.

Status

Middle of being rewritten. Handles /users/{id}/* routes along with /sites and /users. Documentation forthcoming

Known Issues

Not completed

Documentation

Coming soon

License

Released under the MIT Open Source License.

Download

gem install rubyoverflow 

or GitHub

Platform

Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3

Contact

rubyoverflow contains contributions from Dan Seaver. Leave feedback and bug reports on my GitHub project page.

Code

Complete source can be downloaded from GitHub.

Notes

Documentation of how API methods map to rubyoverflow coming shortly

Release Notes

0.5

Begins Rewrite

Answer 1

Its funny how some of the rubyoverflow's sourcecode is incredibly similar to pilha.

http://github.com/phsr/rubyoverflow/blob/master/lib/rubyoverflow.rb

http://github.com/dlt/pilha/blob/master/lib/pilha.rb

Why not send pull requests to pilha instead of making your own version of it?

Answer 2

Its not bad to borrow someone else's code since you give credit to the person you borrowed the code from. ;-)

The class << self its a shortcut to define a lot of class methods, so instead of doing something like:

class MyClass
  def MyClass.a_method
  end

  def MyClass.another_method
  end
end

You can do:

class MyClass
  class << self
    def a_method
    end

    def another_method
    end
  end
end