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Jared Kuolt has put together a cool little app that lets you use Jabber with campfire. The app simply uses Tinder to listen in on a campfire room, forwarding messages on to a Jabber account, and posting any messages it receives from Jabber. Very cool.

A week or so ago, 37 Signals released an update to Campfire that broke the ability to listen in a room with Tinder. Version 0.1.5 of Tinder has been released, which fixes the Room#listen method.

Lawrence Oluyede has released Pinder, a Python port of Tinder. Very cool! We’ve been semi-conspiring to try to keep the feature set in sync. It would be cool if we could figure out how to standardize test cases, too.

I’ve committed a first pass at transcript support for Tinder. I don’t really have an immediate need for it, so I’d love to get some feedback on how useful it is, and if there’s other transcript features that are missing.

dates = room.available_transcripts
transcript = room.transcript(dates.first)
transcript.first
#=> {:message=>"foobar!", :user_id=>"99999", :person=>"Brandon", :id=>"18659245"}

Check out the source and let me know what you think.

Daniel Morrison pointed out to me this morning that Tinder has officially attained “unofficial” status from 37Signals.

From the Campfire site:

That’s pretty exciting. I’ll blog in a couple days with more details on the project that I wrote Tinder for.

Thanks Tero Parviainen, Tinder now has SSL support.

campfire = Tinder::Campfire.new("mydomain", :ssl => true)
campfire.login email, password
campfire.ssl?
#=> true

Now you can chat in private.

I just released an update to Tinder, the really unofficial Campfire API, that allows listening in on a room:

campfire = Tinder::Campfire.new 'mysubdomain'
campfire.login 'myemail@example.com', 'mypassword'

room = campfire.find_room_by_name 'Room 1'

messages = room.listen
#=> [{:person=>"Brandon", :message=>"I'm getting very sleepy", :user_id=>"148583", :id=>"16434003"}]

#listen takes an option block, which causes it to poll for new messages every 5 seconds and call the block for each message. It works great for heckling (ok, maybe that’s not the intent):

room.listen do |m|
  room.speak "You're dumb!" if m[:person] == 'Brandon'
end

Check out my original post for more information about Tinder. Feedback and patches are welcome!

Thanks to Jesse Newland for the listening code.

update: Tinder can listen

update: Tinder is now available as a gem from rubyforge. Check out http://rubyforge.org/projects/tinder for more information.

For a project that I’m currently working, the client wants to be able provide live chat to its users. So, instead of re-inventing the wheel, we decided to try to use Campfire. The only problem is that I need to be able to create and destroy chat rooms automatically, and Campfire doesn’t have an API.

Caboo.se has done some work on a Campfire bot called Marshmallow but the code repository is unavailable. And, it doesn’t seem to allow you to create and delete rooms.

So, introducing Tinder, an API for interfacing with Campfire:

require 'rubygems'
require 'tinder'
campfire = Tinder::Campfire.new 'mysubdomain'
campfire.login 'myemail@example.com', 'mypassword'
room = campfire.create_room 'New Room', 'My new campfire room to test tinder'
room.speak 'Hello world!'
room.paste File.read("path/to/your/file.txt")
room.destroy

Install

gem install tinder

You can get the source from:

git clone git://github.com/collectiveidea/tinder.git

Tinder can also be installed as a gem or a rails plugin.

script/plugin install git://github.com/collectiveidea/tinder.git

Thanks to Zach Dennis for the name. Feedback and patches are welcome!

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