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by Sean C.

The goal of cat2rafb is to implement a command line utility that will
allow you
to submit arbitrary text to http://rafb.net/paste/ and get the URL for
the text
back. Bonus points for pushing the URL through http://rubyurl.com/ to
make it
more manageable.

cat2rafb could work like cat, taking files as input or text until ^D
after
entering the command.

And we should submit our solutions to rafb (after the spoiler period),
as well as to the list?

Nice self-referential touch!

Regards,

Paul.

On Apr 28, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Paul N. wrote:

And we should submit our solutions to rafb (after the spoiler period),
as well as to the list?

As long as they make it here, I’m happy. :slight_smile:

James Edward G. II

My solution is attached (It’s also at http://rubyurl.com/mgX but I know
these messages are archived so I included it here). It’s a pretty short
thing and not the cleanest code but this was one of those ‘just get it
written’ things for me :slight_smile:

Synopsis:
cat2rafb.rb [-nNickname] [-dDesc] [-lLanguage] [-cConvtabs] [-r]
[[-tText] | [FILES, …]]

Options:
-n - Specify nickname to paste with
(default: ENV[‘USER’] || ‘unknown’)
-d - Description of paste (default: none)
-l - Language for syntax highlighting
(default: Ruby unless -R option is passed: then Plain Text)
-c - Convert tabs to specified number of spaces (default: No)
-r - Display only rubyurl for this paste
(default: both rafb & rubyurl)
-R - Rafb only - don’t get a rubyurl for this paste
-t - Specify text on commandline, rather than reading files.
If no -t or filenames are supplied, STDIN is read.
-t precludes reading of any file.

To get a list of valid language and tab-conversion lengths, you can
just pass the appropriate option with no value, e.g.

./cat2rafb.rb -l
./cat2rafb.rb -c

Examples:
./cat2rafb.rb somefile.txt
./cat2rafb.rb -nMyNick -lC++ -R myfile.c
./cat2rafb.rb -n’Long Nick’ -d’Ruby code’ -t’print if ~/^\d+:/’ -r
./cat2rafb.rb -c2 -lruby -nmetoo -d’From stdin’

Thanks for another interesting quiz, a rafb paster seems like a good
thing to have :slight_smile:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require ‘optparse’
require ‘net/http’

Command-Line Interface.

class Cli

Languages = %w{C89 C C++ C# Java Pascal Perl PHP PL/I Python Ruby
SQL VB Plain\ Text}
Aliases = {“c99” => “C”, “visual basic” => “VB”, “text” => “Plain
Text”}
PasteUrl = “http://rafb.net/paste/paste.php

attr :parser
attr :opt

Initialize the command-line parser and set default values for the

options.

def initialize
@opt = {
:lang => “Plain Text”,
:nick => “”,
:desc => “”,
:tabs => “No”,
:help => false}
@parser = OptionParser.new do |cli|
cli.banner += " [file …]"
cli.on(‘-l’,‘–lang=L’, ‘select language’) { |s|
l = s.downcase
opt[:lang] =
if Aliases.include?(l) then
Aliases[l]
else
Languages.find(proc{ raise OptionParser::InvalidArgument,l
}) { |x| x.downcase == l}
end
}
cli.on(‘-n’, ‘–nick=NAME’, ‘use NAME as nickname’) { |s|
opt[:nick] = s}
cli.on(‘-d’, ‘–desc=TEXT’, ‘use TEXT as description’) { |s|
opt[:desc] << s }
cli.on( ‘–tabs=N’, Integer, ‘expand tabs to N blanks (N >=
0)’) {|n|
raise OptionParser::InvalidArgument, n unless n>=0
opt[:tabs] = n
}
cli.on(‘-h’, ‘–help’, ‘show this information and quit’) {
opt[:help] = true }
cli.separator “”
cli.separator “Languages (case insensitive):”
cli.separator "
“+(Languages+Aliases.keys).map{|x|x.downcase}.sort.join(”,")
end
end

Post the given text with the current options to the given uri and

return the uri for the posted text.

def paste(uri, text)
response = Net::HTTP.post_form(
uri,
{ “lang” => opt[:lang],
“nick” => opt[:nick],
“desc” => opt[:desc],
“cvt_tabs” => opt[:tabs],
“text” => text,
“submit” => “Paste” })
uri.merge response[‘location’] || raise(“No URL returned by
server.”)
end

Parse the command-line and post the content of the input files to

PasteUrl. Standard input is used if no input files are specified

or whenever a single dash is specified as input file.

def run
parser.parse!(ARGV)
if opt[:help]
puts parser.help
else
puts paste(URI.parse(PasteUrl), ARGF.read)
end
rescue OptionParser::ParseError => error
puts error
puts parser.help()
end

end

if FILE == $0
Cli.new.run
end

=begin rdoc

:section: A few remarks

The part of this script that actually deals with the http service is
rather short, entirely contained in Cli#paste.

Most of the code sets up the command-line interface so that the user
can specify options such as a nickname, a description, tab expansion,
and the language used for (a rather discreet) syntax highlihting.

A summary of the command-line syntax can be obtained by typing

cat2rafb --help

on the command line or by

require ‘cat2rafb’
cli = Cli.new;
puts cli.parser.help

in ruby.

=end

http://dave.burt.id.au/ruby/nopaste.rb

nopaste.rb - a command-line interface to http://rafb.net/paste

Usage: nopaste.rb [options]

Options:

-l, --lang LANGUAGE Language of snippet (default Plain Text)

C89, C, C++, C#, Java, Pascal, Perl, PHP,

PL/I, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB, Plain Text

-n, --nick NICKNAME Your nickname (9 char max)

-d, --desc DESCRIPTION Description of the snippet (50 char max)

-t, --cvt-tabs [SPACES] Convert tabs to spaces (default No)

No, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

-u, --rubyurl Shorten the URL using rubyurl.com

-a, --agree-to-terms Agree to the Terms of Use (mandatory)

-s, --show-terms Show the Terms of Use

-h, --help Show this message

D:\Docs\ruby>nopaste.rb -aulR -n"Dave B."
#!ruby
puts “hello world”
^Z
Your snippet has been uploaded:
http://rubyurl.com/i6U

This program should also be usable as a library; in particular,
NoPaste.paste(text, options) and RubyUrl.shorten(url).
The command-line code is just this:
opts = NoPaste.options # process ARGV
url = NoPaste.paste(ARGF.read, opts)
url = RubyUrl.shorten(url) if opts[:rubyurl]
puts “Your snippet has been uploaded:\n #{url}”

Cheers,
Dave

On 4/30/06, Wilson B. [email protected] wrote:

I decided I didn’t like rafb’s Ruby highlighting, so I set up an
alternate server that uses the “syntax” gem to handle it. It uses the
simply_restful plugin to expose a REST API for creating pastes.

Here’s a quiz submission that posts to rpaste, instead of rafb.net:
http://rpaste.com/paste/7

Feature requests and better CSS submissions welcome. :slight_smile:

Wow, now talk about an interesting way of solving this quiz. You
really thought outside the box, eh?

Anyhow, personally I like the look of the site (my standard VIM setup
is a black background with white text.) Also the syntax highlighting
is nice looking.

Ryan

On 4/28/06, Ruby Q. [email protected] wrote:

back. Bonus points for pushing the URL through http://rubyurl.com/ to make it
more manageable.

cat2rafb could work like cat, taking files as input or text until ^D after
entering the command.

I decided I didn’t like rafb’s Ruby highlighting, so I set up an
alternate server that uses the “syntax” gem to handle it. It uses the
simply_restful plugin to expose a REST API for creating pastes.

Here’s a quiz submission that posts to rpaste, instead of rafb.net:
http://rpaste.com/paste/7

Feature requests and better CSS submissions welcome. :slight_smile:

–Wilson.

It isn’t pretty and it isn’t feature rich, but it does get the job done.

See also: http://rubyurl.com/HgY

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require ‘uri’
require ‘net/http’

result =
Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(‘http://rafb.net/paste/paste.php’),
{:text => ARGF.readlines,
:nick => ‘paste user’,
:lang => ‘Ruby’})
result = Net::HTTP.get_response ‘rubyurl.com’,

‘/rubyurl/remote?website_url=http://rafb.net’ + result[‘location’]
puts result[‘location’].sub(‘rubyurl/show/’, ‘’)

Sean C.