fragment from toy.rb for dealing with factbooks

toy_factbook_fragment.py

 # a method off of an object which represents a nation (session)
def factbook( self, id_, name, cat, factbook ):
    url="/template-overall=none/page=lodge_dispatch"
    query = { 'submitbutton' : ' Post ', 'edit': id_, 'localid': self.localid, 'message':factbook, 'dname' : name, 'dcategory' : 1, 'dcategory1' : int(cat) }
    qs = urllib.urlencode(query)
    res=trawler.request( path = url, query=qs, session = "pin={0}".format(self.pin()) )
    doc = res.read()
    m = re.compile('^<p class="error">.*$').match(doc):
    if m:
        print m.group(0)
    self.localid = self.get_localid()
    return re.compile('<p class="info">Factbook edited\.').match(doc)

toy_factbook_fragment.rb

  # a method off of an object which represents a nation (session)
  def factbook( id, name, cat, factbook )
    url="http://www.nationstates.net/template-overall=none/page=lodge_dispatch"
    post_hash = { :submitbutton => '   Post   ', :edit => id, :localid => localid, :message => CGI.escape(factbook), :dname => CGI.escape(name), :dcategory => 1, :dcategory1 => cat.to_i }
    post_string = post_hash.collect {|a| a.join('=')}.join('&')
    res=Curld.request( :get => url, :post => post_string, :sess => "pin=#{pin}" )
    if res =~ /^<p class="error">.*$/
      puts $~[0]
    end
    @localid = get_localid
    return res =~ /<p class="info">Factbook edited./
  end