Zerigo's recent rate increase will raise my yearly cost 5000% so I created this lovely little script to help you leave Zerigo behind. It relies on the excellent fog library http://fog.io/dns/ It is currently targeting DNSimple but fog supports many other providers. Using it is very satisfying. After setting the correct connection settings just t…

screw_you_zerigo.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'fog'
require 'zerigo_dns'

# A simple script to help you leave zerigo behind
# it relies on the excellent fog library http://fog.io/dns/

# It copies all of your Zerigo zones to DNSimple

# It is currently targeting DNSimple but fog supports many other
# providers.

# Using it is very satisfying
# after setting the correct connection settings
# just type

# ScrewYouZerigo.im_fucking.outa_here

class ScrewYouZerigo
  attr_accessor :source, :destination
  def initialize(source, destination)
    @source = source
    @destination = destination
  end

  def create_zone_hash(zone)
    { :domain => zone.domain,
      :ttl    => zone.ttl }
  end

  def create_record_hash(record)
    [:value, :domain, :name, :ttl, :type ].inject({ :name => "" }) { |accum, value|
      accum[value] = record.send(value)
      accum
    }
  end

  def zones_to_move
    Zerigo::DNS::Zone.all(:params => {:per_page => 999}).collect do |zz|
      source.zones.get zz.domain
    end
  end
  
  def copy_zone(zone)
    new_zone = destination.zones.create(create_zone_hash(zone))
    zone.records.each do |record|
      new_zone.records.create(create_record_hash(record))
    end
  end

  def outa_here
    zones_to_move.each do |zone|
      copy_zone(zone)
    end
  end

  def ___reset_destination!
    # this will delete freaking everything in the destination account
    destination.zones.each &:destroy
  end
  
  def self.im_fucking
    zemail    = Zerigo::DNS::Base.user = 'XXXXXXXXXXXX'       # CHANGE THIS
    # the following is the Zerigo API token
    zpassword = Zerigo::DNS::Base.password = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX" # CHANGE THIS
    ScrewYouZerigo.new(Fog::DNS.new({
                                      :provider     => 'Zerigo',
                                      :zerigo_email => zemail, 
                                      :zerigo_token => zpassword
                                    }),
                       Fog::DNS.new({
                                      :provider     => 'DNSimple',
                                      :dnsimple_email => "XXXXXXXXXXXXX", # CHANGE THIS
                                      # the following is your actual login password
                                      :dnsimple_password => "XXXXXXXXXXXXX" # CHANGE THIS
                                    }))

  end
  
end

# unccoment the next line if you want this to be executable
# ScrewYouZerigo.im_fucking.outa_here

Nice !