Some notes on authentication and posting to Tumblr for future reference

gistfile1.rb

@consumer=OAuth::Consumer.new( oauth_app_token,
  oauth_app_secret,
  {:site => 'http://www.tumblr.com'})

@request_token=@consumer.get_request_token

@request_token.authorize_url

@access_token = @request_token.get_access_token(:oauth_token => oauth_token,
:oauth_verifier => oauth_verifier )

result = @access_token.post('http://www.tumblr.com/api/write', :type => 'regular', :title => 'My first post', :body => 'This is my <b>second</b> post')

data = @access_token.get('http://www.tumblr.com/api/authenticate')

xml_doc  = Nokogiri::XML(data.body)

xml_doc.xpath('.//tumblelog').first.attributes['url'].value