Simple Posterous TextMate Bundle

This is a very simple TextMate bundle that will convert a file from Markdown to HTML and post to your Posterous account through the Posterous API.

NOTE: This bundle will not handle uploading media and images. And it's really new, and I haven't put it through it's paces yet.

Requirements

The bundle requires rtomayko "RDiscount" gem. To install run:

gem install rdiscount

NOTE: you may need to sudo this command.

Installing

To install the TextMate bundle, just copy/paste each line into your command line.

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
git clone git@github.com:graemenelson/posterous_tmbundle.git 'Posterous.tmbundle'
osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to reload bundles'      

In Preferences > Advanced > Shell Variables you can add the following variables for Posterous:

TM_POSTEROUS_USERNAME
TM_POSTEROUS_PASSWORD

If you don't add these variables you will be prompted for them at the time of submission.

Usage

Once you have Markdown document ready to be submitted to your posterous account, just run Bundles > Posterous > Push Markdown To Posterous

Title

The title of the post will be taken from the name of the file. For example:

This is my post.markdown

Will become

This is my post

Currently, you also get the option to change this title via a dialog popup at time of submission. I will likely remove this, and just stick with name of the file.

Tags

Currently a dialog is presented at the time of submission that allows you to enter tags (comma delimited). I am looking into incorporating the tags into the document -- in order to get rid of the dialog input.

Gotchas

• The posts aren't secure, I need to look at getting SSL working when posting to Posterous
• There is no error checking at this time, if you hit Cancel on the input dialogs, it will continue on
• I am not happy with all the dialog inputs, I will look into revising this.

TODO

• After the document is posted, have a way to navigate to the new post. (Posterous returns a response with url)
• Bulletproof the markdown encoding, for example a code block with an & was causing some problems.