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# don't forget to turn off forgery protection:
# protect_from_forgery :except => [:swfupload, :encode_notify]

# if you're not using swfupload, code like this would be in your create and update methods
# all you really need to ensure is that after @video.save, you run @video.encode!
def swfupload
  @video = Video.new(params[:video])
  @video.swfupload_file = params[:Filedata]
  # if we're in production, test should be nil but otherwise we're going to want to encode
  # videos using Zencoder's test setting so we're not spending cash to do so

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class Video < ActiveRecord::Base  
  validates_presence_of :title
	
  named_scope :finished, :conditions => { :encoded_state => "finished" }
  
  has_attached_file :video, 
    :url => ":class/:id/:style/:basename.:extension",
    :path => ":class/:id/:style/:basename.:extension",
    :storage => :s3
  validates_attachment_presence :video

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class Zencoder
  include HTTParty
  headers "Accept" => "application/json", "Content-Type" => "application/json"
  base_uri 'https://app.zencoder.com/api'
  default_params :api_key => "YOUR-API-KEY-GOES-HERE"
  format :json
  
  attr_accessor :job_id
  attr_reader :errors  
  attr_reader :output_url

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def follower_insult(followers)
  case followers
    when 0..100 then ["Hopefully you've got more friends offline, though we're not counting on it."]
    when 101..1000 then ["That's like, what, a small village? A hamlet? Way to escape the farmstead, chief.", "And you thought you'd get more popular once you finished high school."]
    else ["Proof positive that large numbers of people can be very, very wrong.", "Lemmings."]
  end.sort_by { rand }.first
end

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  def progress_statements
    [
      ["Evaluating Followers", "Questionable"],
      ["Analyzing Retweet Recursion Depth", "Substantial"],
      ["Syntax, Grammar and Vocabulary Analysis", "Seventh grade"],      
      ["Determining Mediated Collective Influence", "Fourth degree"],
      ["Resolving Social Matrix Lattices", "Semi-entwined"],
      ["Reticulating Splines", "Bezier"]
    ]
  end

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post '/value' do
  screen_name = params[:screen_name]
  if screen_name && screen_name != ""
    @info = Twitter.get('/1/users/show.json', :query => { :screen_name => screen_name })
    if @info['error']
      redirect "/?failure=There was an error retrieving your account information. Twitter says: #{info['error']}."
    else
      # Since we've now successfully retrieved information on a user account, we'll either look up or save this user in our
      # database.
      person = Person.first(:screen_name => screen_name)

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/ Although from the user's perspective we are requesting a "username", we'll use Twitter's nomenclature
/ for this field and call it screen_name in our code instead. By using the same names as the API you 
/ interact with, you decrease the cognitive overhead of dealing with the API.
%form{:action => "/value", :method => "post"}
  Enter your Twitter username:
  %input{:name => "screen_name", :type => "text"}
  %input{:type => "submit", :value => "Submit"}

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# sure, 'class Tweep' would work too, but no way in hell are we going down that road.
class Person
  include DataMapper::Resource
  
  property :id, Serial
  property :screen_name, String, :unique_index => true
  property :name, String
  property :profile_image_url, String
  # storing these will allow us to rank this person against other users
  # if we wish, we can also use these as cached results from Twitter if the user

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# http://httparty.rubyforge.org/
# E.g.: Twitter.get('/1/users/show.json', :query => { :screen_name => "USERNAME" })
class Twitter
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'api.twitter.com'
end

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!!!
%html{ :lang => "en" }
  %head
    %meta{ :content => "text/html; charset=utf-8", "http-equiv" => "Content-Type" }/
    %title
      = "#{@page_title} ±" if @page_title
      99 Bottles
    %link{ :href => "/style.css", :title => "no title", :rel => "stylesheet", :media => "screen", :type => "text/css", :charset => "utf-8" }
    %script{ :type => "text/javascript", :src => "/jquery.js" }
    / Drop in an erb file that just contains Javascript - that way, any Javascript we need is contained cleanly in a