have Archive.create('archive@user.email', 'password', 'ArchiveIdentif…

…ier', '', '') working. But I still need to make file specification an option.... I need to study some xml from the archive's servers

lib/archive.rb

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+require 'uri'
+require 'net/http'
+require 'net/ftp'
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'hpricot'
+require 'xmlsimple'
+
+module Archive
+  SourceName = 'ArchiveGem'
+
+  module EasyClassMaker
+
+    def self.included(base)
+      base.extend(ClassMethods)
+    end
+
+    module ClassMethods
+      # creates the attributes class variable and creates each attribute's accessor methods
+      def attributes(*attrs)
+        @@attributes = attrs
+        @@attributes.each { |a| attr_accessor a }
+      end
+
+      # read method for attributes class variable
+      def self.attributes; @@attributes end
+    end
+
+    # allows for any class that includes this to use a block to initialize
+    # variables instead of assigning each one seperately
+    # 
+    # Example: 
+    # 
+    # instead of...
+    # 
+    # a = Archive.new
+    # a.foo = 'thing'
+    # a.bar = 'another thing'
+    #
+    # you can ...
+    # 
+    # Archive.new do |a|
+    #   a.foo = 'thing'
+    #   a.bar = 'another thing'
+    # end
+    def initialize
+      yield self if block_given?
+    end
+  end
+
+  class ArchiveItem
+
+    include EasyClassMaker
+
+    attributes :archive_identifier, :xml_files, :xml_meta
+
+    class << self
+      def new(archive_identifier, xml_files, xml_meta)
+        ArchiveItem.new do |i|
+          i.archive_identifier    = archive_identifier
+          i.xml_files             = xml_files
+          i.xml_meta              = xml_meta
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+
+  ## Archive.create('archive@user.email', 'password', 'ArchiveIdentifier', 'files_xml', 'metadata_xml')
+  def self.create(archive_user, archive_password, archive_identifier, xml_files, xml_meta) 
+
+    #c = ArchiveItem.new(archive_identifier, xml_files, xml_meta)
+
+    create_xml = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('http://www.archive.org/create.php?identifier=' + archive_identifier + '&xml=1&user=' + archive_user))
+
+    create = XmlSimple.xml_in(create_xml)
+
+    uri = URI.parse('ftp://' + create['url'].to_s)
+    path = uri::path
+
+    ftp = Net::FTP.new(uri.host)
+    ftp.login(user = archive_user, archive_password)
+    ftp.chdir(path)
+    ftp.putbinaryfile('/test.jpg')
+    ftp.close
+
+    response = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('http://www.archive.org/checkin.php?identifier=' + archive_identifier + '&xml=1&user=' + archive_user))
+    puts response
+  end
+end

test/archive_test.rb

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+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/test_helper'
+
+class ArchiveTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  should "probably rename this file and start testing for real" do
+    flunk "hey buddy, you should probably rename this file and start testing for real"
+  end
+end